Dive Brief:
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According to a survey of around 10,000 workers conducted by IEEE-USA, U.S. IT salaries rose by 4.25% in 2014.
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The survey included self-employment, salary, commissions and bonuses. It was the largest increase in six years.
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The median income for U.S. electrical engineers, computer scientists and other information technology workers grew from $124,700 to $130,000 between 2013 and 2014, according to the survey.
Dive Insight:
The highest median incomes for those IT workers in the 2014 survey were in the areas of communications technology ($150,000), followed by circuits and devices ($143,008) and signals and applications ($141,062).
Workers in industrial applications ($120,000), systems and control ($119,572) and energy and power engineering ($116,175) had the lowest median incomes.
