SMB vs. large corporations: How top IT salaries differ

Janco Associates has just released its mid-year IT compensation survey, and part of what it looks at is how top IT salaries differ in large corporations and small to medium businesses.

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How much do salaries differ for the top positions in IT if you work for a small or medium business versus a large corporation? The short answer is a lot.

Janco Associates has just released its mid-year IT compensation study. Part of the study focuses on six-figure IT salaries and how they differ depending on the size of the organization.

Janco divides the data into six categories:

• IT Leaders - Large firms
• Mid-management - Large firms
• Staff positions - Large firms
• IT management - SMBs
• Mid-management - SMBs
• IT staff - SMBs

(A business with 100 or fewer employees is generally considered small, while one with 101-999 employees is considered to be medium-sized. I asked Janco about its criteria for this distinction, and they said that large companies are companies whose gross revenues are equal to or greater than $500 MM. Mid-sized companies are companies whose gross revenues are less than $500 MM.)

Here's how the six-figure salaries for IT staff in large corporations differed from their counterparts in SMBs:

	Large corporations	SMBs
Programmer/analyst	$172,089	$129,641
Senior Network Specialist	$165,013	$146,562
Disaster Recovery Coordinator	$152,696	$102,598
Software Engineer	$135,279	$171,374
Database Specialist	$124,791	$125,631
Systems Support Specialist	$103,848	$108,685

It's interesting that the software engineer and system support specialists actually make more money in the smaller organizations.