Dice.com 2007 Annual Salary Survey just got published. Key points:
- Average IT professional’s salary rose 1.7 percent to $74,570
- Leaders are Project/MIS Managers with 5.0% and 7.8% raise
- Banking/Financial industry was almost flat - 0.6% growth

Apparently terminally ill multimillionaire Monster.com founder Andrew McKelvey just confessed in falsified SEC filings and back-dated stock options for company employees. As part of a deal McKelvey has agreed to pay Monster.com $8 million and convert his 4.7 million shares from super voting to common type (voting power went from 10 to 1 per share).
One might wonder is recent departure of EVP of Sales Steve Pogorzelski has anything to do with this.

Steve Pogorzelski, Monster.com’s executive vice president of global sales and customer development, appears to be leaving the company. Officially he is planning to stick with the company as advisor. Advisor? I am not buying that. That’s what company officials are usually coming up with to make investors less nervous. Apparently, by the time of announcement there was no one to take his place. Coincidentially, this all took place in about a week prior to company’s quaterly earnings report.

CareerBuilder.com just released survey [pdf], conducted by Harris Interactive.
32% of employers said they ave plans to add full-time employees in 2008. The same survey for 2007 year ago had this number at 40%. Top growing industries are professional and business services and IT.