Small business salaries down 0.4% in June 2008
In June 2008, average annualized small-business salaries dropped by 0.4% to $32,386.11, according to SurePayroll.
Published on: July 8, 2008 Department: Employment
Published on: July 8, 2008 Department: Employment
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- 62% of salaried Americans happy with their medical and retirement benefits
- Most dangerous US jobs: fishing, flying, logging
- Highest-paid US public company executives
- 62.7% of US employees choose PPO plan for their medical insurance
- 78% of US employees feel burned out on the job
- Small business salaries down 0.4% in June 2008
- 31% of US organizations have weight-loss programs
- 20% drop in Computer Science majors in 2008
- 40% of US employees completely satisfied with their jobs
- 37% of US IT workers would take a pay cut if it involved telecommuting
- 78% of companies using social networks to find candidates
- 67% of Canadian execs see professional networking sites useful
- 91,400 high-tech jobs added in the US in 2007
- 21,400 IT jobs added in California in 2006, 5.9 mln Americans were employed by tech
- 37% of US employees were bullied on the job
- 74% of Californians noticed a weaker economy in February 2008
- 63K jobs lost in February 2008
- 16.2% of top CEOs left their jobs in 2007
- 23% of Americans regularly work from offsite locations
- Average IT worker earned $32.39 an hour in October 2007
- 48% of Americans have known of a married colleague having an affair
- Top European job sites in Q4 2007
- Top employment sites in January 2008
- By 2011 75% of the US workforce will be mobile
- 1.4 mln Americans unemployed for long-term in January 2007
- 17K US jobs lost in January 2007
- Top European job sites in Q4 2007
- 20% of employees casually browse Internet, use P2P at work
- Only 27% of CIOs have enough people to work on the business needs
- 80% of Japanese workforce to be mobile by 2011
- Average American worked a 45-hour week in 2007
- 50% of US small business owners telecommute
- 23% of US workers regularly telecommute
- Base salaries will increase 3.9% in 2008
- 42% of US employees plan to give bonuses
- 166k new US jobs added in October 2007
- College tuitions up 6.6% in 2007
- 41 mln Americans cannot afford health care and housing
- Online job sites market shares
- Techiest US cities: San Jose, Washington DC, Raleigh
- 88% of workers consider themselves creative, 37% consider their companies dull
- Online job posts up 4% in September 2007
- 22% of computer science degrees were awarded to women in 2005
- 11% of UK employees telecommute
- 45% of Americans think economy is declining
- Top starting salaries for IT professionals
- 17% of US work force are baby boomers
- 78.9% of execs plan to take a vacation in 2007
- 85% of job applicants think a tattoo impedes getting a job
- 60% of workers waste 1.7 hours a day
- 66% of US companies plan to hire more IT staff
- 45% of US employees did not use all vacation days in 2006
- 71% of interns in 2007 were paid
- 5.8 mln Americans work in IT, 1.5 mln of them are software engineers
- 148 mln US employees in 2007
- US unemployment rate is at 4.4%
- 44% of federal workers have an option to telework
- Small business employment up 0.7% so far in 2007
- Only 47% of Americans like their jobs
- 1.804 mln of new jobs in 2000-2005 taken by men, 1.996 mln - by women
- Half of Americans are looking for new jobs
- IT exec salaries in large companies up 1.92% in Q4 2006
- Smal business salaries up 7.4% in 2006
- US office workers interrupted 11 times an hour
- 132k new jobs in November 2006
- 76% of Americans earning more than $100,000 say leisure time is important
- 48% of UK IT workers are looking for another job
- Top European employment sites
- 71% of top performers switch companies due to pay levels
- Top US companies founded by immigrants: Intel, Solectron, Sanmina-SCI, Sun
- Newspaper industry shed 18% of its jobs between 1990 and 2004
- US unemployment at 4.4% in September 2006
- Obesity costs US companies $13 bln a year
- 25% of US retailers to increase counterfraud measures this holiday season
- 67% of employees report information overload
- 70% of companies have hired high schoolers with poor grammar or writing skills
- Average small business owner salary is $233,600
- Best commuter workplaces in 2006
- 19% of US employees would post resumes on social networking sites
- 18% of IT workers expect their employers to make cuts
- 51K new jobs added in September 2006
- 100,315 Americans laid off in September 2006
- 140k new tech jobs in the first half of 2006
- Top-growing occupations 2004-2014
- Top companies for women
- Only 33% of employees satisfied with employer-employee communication
- 70% of baby boomers do not plan to retire after reaching 65
- 60% of tech workers are looking for new jobs
- 538,914 Americans laid off so far this year
- 45% of employees got raises in 2005
- 20% of US families control 50.4% of US income
- In 2006 US executives received a 58.8% raise
- 29% of workers work longer hours today than a year ago
- Average programmer got a 8.7% increase in 2006
- Post-secondary education enrollment to grow 13% between 2004 and 2014
- 88% of companies added health benefits to retain employees
- $1.1 trillion to be spent on engineering services by 2020
- 39% of IT employees to look for new jobs in Q3 2006
- 13% of US males 30-55 do not work
- Most prestigious US occupations: firefighters, doctors, nurses, scientists
- 73% of HR execs blame low morale on leadership problems
- Turnover at tech companies was at 12.3% in Q2 2006
- Both males and females prefer male bosses to female
- 2% of large US companies have fired employees for inappropriate blogging
- Only 11% of employees take advantage of telecommuting policies
- Most affordable US cities: Knoxville, Tennessee, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Kokoma, Indiana
- US incomes up 0.4% in May 2006
- 75% of information workers have made decisions based on bad data
- Data on 2005 H1-B applications
- Cell phones ringing #1 annoyance at work
- 22.1% of self-employed Europeans work from home
- 56% of US small business owners hired or have tried to hire staff in May 2006
- 50% of employees 18 to 24 do not plan to stay with their companies
- 70% of hiring managers plan to recruit college grads in 2006
- Unemployment in Canada is at 6.1%
- 36% of telecommuting CSRs say their decision was influenced by gas prices
- 75K new jobs added in May 2006
- Monster Employment index up 25% in May 2006
- 144,000 Americans employed with video game industry
- New Zealand wages up 3.1% in Q1 2006
- 138K Americans got hired in April 2006
- Average tech salary in Silicon Valley is $85,600, C/C++ the most demanded skill
- Top employers for MBAs: McKinsey, Google, Goldman Sachs
- In March 2007 unemployment level was at 4.7%, 2.2% for college-educated workers
- Pay for certified IT skills up 2.6% in 2005, pay for non-certified up 4.4%
- IT staffing in healthcare down by 38% in 2005
- 3.472 mln IT workers in the US in Q1 2006
- Best US jobs: software engineer, college professor, financial advisor
- 60% of Americans think they will never be too old to start a business
- Canadian unemployment at 6.3%
- 211K jobs added in March 2006
- 72% of US companies plan to hire 2006 graduates
- Online recruitment ads to grow 20-30% in 2006
- Online job postings up in 28 US markets in February 2006
- US GDP up 8.4% in 5 years, wages down 0.3%
- Hiring better finance people will lead 30% of customers to pay their bills faster
- March Madness cost US employers $3.8 bln in productivity
- 25% of US employees use work Internet for job hunting
- US jobless benefit claims down by 11K in one week
- 54% of US workers do not want the job of their boss
- 31% of US companies plan to continue hiring in Q2 2006
- US unemployment rate up to 4.8% in February 2006
- 2-3% of US IT jobs to go offshore by 2016
- Canada unemployment rate at 6.6% in January 2006
- Internet sources produced 51% of all new hires in 2005
- IT wages up 3.1% in 2005
- US unemployment is at 4.7%
- 13% of UK parents take work home every day
- 125K tech jobs created in 2005, 217K new tech jobs in 2006
- IT unemployment rate stayed at 2.9% in 2005
- 1.63 mln jobs posted online in December 2005
- Silicon Valley employment up 0.2% in 2005
- In 2004 61% of new hires were referred by Internet postings
- Best companies to work for: Genentech, Wegmans Food Markets, Valero Energy
- Foreign student enrollment at US universities down 3%
- 48 mln Americans have no pension benefits
- Small business hiring up 0.3% in 2005
- 300K customer care reps to work from home by 2010
- Silicon Valley employees earning 17% more than US average
- 100 mln Americans to telecommute in 2008
- 26.1 mln Americans work from home at least 1 day a month
- Phone companies shed 15.5% of their jobs between 1998 and 2003
- IT vendors to increase customer support staffing by 40% a year through 2008
- 25% of Europeans have visited a job site in Q3 2005
- Venture-funded firms created 630K European jobs in 2000-2004
- UK attracted 22K foreign workers in 2004
- Worldwide recruiting market to grow at 8.3% a year
- 2 mln help-wanted ads posted online in October 2005
- 41% of US companies will give employees holiday bonuses
- 15% of immigrants to the USA go into architecture and engineering
- 21% of UK IT workers are female
- 56K new jobs in October 2005
- Best states to work in: Delaware, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Vermont
- 41 mln will work from home at least once a week by 2008
- IT salaries up 3% in 2005
- Only 48% of US middle managers are satisfied with their jobs
- 41K tech jobs eliminated in Q3 2005
- Public university tuition up 7.1% in 2005
- 26 mln Western European teleworkers by 2010
- 68% of Chinese companies expect to increase staffing
- 500,000 networking technology vacancies will not be filled in 2008
- HCL Infosystems, Infosys and TCS top Indian employers
- IT worker confidence index down in August 2005
- 190K tech jobs added in the first half of 2005
- Most popular employers among US computer science students: Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Apple
- 16% of CIOs plan hiring, 4% - firing
- US median household income was $44,389 in 2004
- Tech paychecks down 1.2% in Q2 2005
- Silicon Valley job count up by 900 in July 2005
- Number of female students entering computer science down 80% in 2004 from 1998 levels
- 41% of Americans dated a co-worker
- States with most new tech jobs in July 2005: California, Texas, New Jersey
- Hiring by small businesses up 0.1% in July 2005
- 207K new jobs added to the economy in July 2005
- Most US small businesses with employees stay open for 11 hours a day
- 63% of financial companies and 62% of government organizations plan to hire IT staff
- Silicon Valley created 6,900 jobs in June 2005
- Salaries for certified tech workers up 3% for the past 12 months
- Tech unemployment is at 3.7%
- Tech layoff numbers down 33%
- Average employee goofs off 2.09 hours a day
- IT employee confidence index up in June 2005
- Computer science jobs up 7.7% in Q1 2005
- UK IT contractor average rate was $49.87 per hour in June 2005
- 32% of IT workers are women
- Most expensive cities in the world: Tokyo, Osaka, London, Moscow, Seoul
- 40% of Canadian small business owners to retire by 2010
- Average IT salary is $77,249 in June 2005
- 14% of CIOs plan to hire IT staff in Q3 2005
- 10,000 Brits under 30 went bankrupt in Q1 2005
- 26.1% of new US tech jobs are in California
- Pay for certified tech skills up 6% in Q1 2005
- 82,283 people laid off in May 2005
- Tech employment up by 700 jobs in May 2005
- 75,000 medical experts do side work for Wall Street
- 42% of baby boomers will retire, but 70% plan to work after retirement
- 15% reduction in IT workforce by 2010
- 5% of UK IT specialists satisfied with their jobs
- 39% of 2003 H1B approvals were for tech industry, 37% brought people from India
- 20,000 college graduates with computer-related degrees in 2004
- Software and services added 30K jobs in 2004
- High-tech industry lost 333,000 jobs in 2003 and 25,000 jobs in 2004
- Fastest-growing job markets: Rutherford County, Tennessee, Clark County, Nevada
- 60% less incoming college students want to major in Computer Science
- Job posting on Dice.com up 22% in Q1 2005
- UK gaming industry employs 22,000 people
- 80% of college grads will look for jobs on the Web, 51% will check out newspapers
- 33% of companies plan to add workers in Q2 2005
- 220,000 jobs to be added in March 2005
- Only 19% of tech workers expect layoffs in February 2005
- 40% of fast-growing tech companies will expand workforce by 25%
- 11% of workforce to retire within next 5 years due to babyboomer issue
- Silicon Valley loses jobs in December, January
- Tech support a $23.3 bln industry by 2009
- Software engineer and system analyst among the top 10 US jobs
- US added 225,000 jobs in February 2005
- 92,351 jobs cut in January 2005, most in government sector
- Average IT salary down 2.6% in 2004
- IT salaries to oncrease 0.5% on average in 2005
- 75% of Americans are looking for a new job
- Demand for IT security experts to grow at 14% a year
- Electronic engineering salaries dropped for the first time in 31 years
- 21% of US employers plan to increase workforce in Q1 2005
- 9900 computer services jobs added in November 2004
- 27% of IT workers expect layoffs within the next few months
- Online job postings hit year-high in November
- US takes 17th place in science and engineering student proportion
- Men work 49 hours a week, women - 43.5 on average
- 20% of IT professionals are women, only 10% of girls want to do science
- 928K tech jobs in California today
- Third of UK firms unable to fill their IT vacancies
- Worldwide recruiting services market to grow at 8.7% a year
- US wages and salaries increased 0.7% in Q3 2004
- IT salaries in India up 19% in 2004, Hewlett-Packard India has highest salaries
- More than half of Silicon Valley employees left after the 2000 dotcom bust
- IT contractor demand in UK almost doubled by Q3 2004
- Tech layoffs up 60% in Q3 2004
- Most IT departments will employ half as many people in 2008
- In 2002 27.2% of computer science jobs belonged to women
- IT salaries to grow 10-15% in the next three years
- Most of recruiting happens through employee referrals and search firms
- 42.5% were satisfied with their financial situation in September
- European IT to add 2 mln jobs in the next four years
- Personal income rises in all 50 states, Washington leads with 2.4% increase
- 82% of companies need business skills, only 56% offer training
- 2004 salaries out of college: $52K for chemical engineering, $51K for engineering, $49K for computer science
- 200K IT jobs lost since Nov 2001
- 230K IT jobs waiting to be filled by the end of 2004
- Salaries of CEOs who offshore grew 46% in 2003
- 11.2% of tech workers were laid off, 8.9% left their jobs themselves in 2003
- Highest paying IT jobs
- US to lose 6% of call centers by 2008
- 22% of science and engineering workers never finished college
- IT optimism up, unemployment down
- IT executive salary increased 1.9% in 2003
- 36% of employees spend at least 30 minutes a week on tech support
- Average network executive salary is $111K
- Average IT worker supports 120.3 users
- 44 mln telecommuting today, 51 mln by 2008
- Average US pay raise will be 3.3% in 2004
- 94% of IT companies will be hiring next quarter
- Small business employment grows 2.28%
- 11,000 computer jobs added in June
- IT management salaries slide
- IT morale low at 72% of US companies
- 3% of Americans work at call centers
- US May layoffs stay on the same levels
- 1.1 mln Americans employed in IT
- Computer Science enrollment dropped 18% in 2003
- 30% of executives engaged in workplace dating, 1% prohibit dating co-workers
- 42 mln. teleworkers in the US
- Top-demand IT skills in Canada - TCP/IP, WinXP, Win2k, security, MS SQL
- Computer science enrollment down 23%, computer engineering down 19%
- Only 1 in 7 IT workers happy with their job
- US jobless claims are at 3-year low
- More than 50% of job applicants lie on their resume
- Top jobs for now and 2010
- Americans have mediocre work spaces, slack off 40-hour weeks
- Average software engineering pay is $67,670
- IT employment expected to pick up 3%
- UK hourly IT contractor rates are at GBP 45
- UK unemployment hits 30-year-low
- Computer engineering and chemical engineering are the most lucrative jobs
- US unemployment rate is 5.6%
- IT salaries up 2% in 2003, average IT salary is $69.4K
- US worker productivity increased 2.7% in Q4 2003
- 117K jobs lost in the US, India’s economy grows 8%
- Silicon Valley will add 17K new jobs
- UK IT job market on the rise in Q4 2003
- Top concerns among Americans: health care costs and unemployment
- Silicon Valley sheds 5% of jobs
- Forrester: 26% of IT jobs gone by 2015
- BrainBench: US IT salaries will grow 1-5% in 2004
- US IT employment down 8% in 2003
- US jobs up
- US productivity up 9.4% in Q3 2003
- AEA: tech job numbers in the US
- High unemployment expected in Germany
- Call-center workers in India
- Reuters: Indian software salaries
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- Russian IT job market
- Online job postings
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