{"id":999881515,"date":"2016-02-04T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpstage.dice.com\/?p=551793298"},"modified":"2016-02-04T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T14:25:00","slug":"rising-salaries-challenge-employers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dicepilot.npgdev.com\/hiring\/recruitment\/rising-salaries-challenge-employers","title":{"rendered":"Rising Salaries Challenge Employers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rising salaries for tech professionals are putting the squeeze on employer budgets when it comes to new hiring, making it more important than ever for recruiters and HR professionals to find tech candidates with the right mix of skills and experience.<\/p>\n\n

Tech salaries rose 7.7 percent between 2014 and 2015, the biggest year-over-year increase in the history of Dice\u2019s Salary Survey<\/a>. As ranked by salary, the most popular tech skills included enterprise applications, programming, databases, operating systems, and cloud\/virtualization. Specialists in the following skills could expect especially generous payouts:<\/p>\n\n

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Despite rising salaries and bonuses, however, a full third of tech professionals (32 percent) told Dice they weren\u2019t happy with their current pay, up slightly from 31.6 percent in 2014. That\u2019s despite 62 percent of professionals reporting a salary increase from the previous year, and 37 percent receiving a bonus.<\/p>\n\n

Based on responses to the survey, it seems that many employers aren\u2019t offering flexibility, interesting assignments, or training as a primary means of retaining their best and brightest. Around 33 percent of respondents said their workplace had given them no \u201cprimary motivator\u201d in 2015. Although 17 percent of employers provided increased compensation as a way of keeping their employees happy, far fewer resorted to flexible work hours (9 percent), the option to telecommute or head to a flexible work location (13 percent), interesting or challenging assignments (12 percent) or training and certification courses (3 percent).<\/p>\n\n

Despite the lack of motivators, previous Dice surveys and reports have demonstrated that an emphasis on work-life balance (and perks) is just as effective as salary when it comes to keeping tech professionals engaged.<\/p>\n\n

For employers, there are several takeaways from\u2028this year\u2019s salary data. First, experienced tech professionals with specialized skill-sets can demand even higher salaries, which can make things more complex when it comes to attempting to hire the very best talent. While salaries in some regions and industries experienced minor decreases between 2014-15, there was a strong upward trend in salaries across the country as a whole. Expect that trend to continue into 2016.<\/p>\n\n