Salary Overview: Software Project Manager

    And we continue to publish the results of labor market research in the IT industry. Recall that in our previous posts we talked in sufficient detail about the salaries of the "Mobile" developers , Designers , Windows system administrators and even described what the social package in an IT company consists of . This time we will talk about how much middle managers, or rather Software Project Manager , get .


    Data source


    Source of information: data provided by IT companies
    MoscowSt. PetersburgNizhny Novgorod
    Data slice05.201106.201106.2011
    Number of participating companies231610
    Data formaton hand (to the card, NET ), total income ( salary + all bonuses )
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    Labor market situation



    Data was collected on the website hh.ru on November 25, 2011 for the last month.
    Doesn’t resemble anything? We observed a similar picture when we talked about system administrators . There is nothing surprising here, because everyone wants to lead and nobody wants to work .

    Career tree


    In this figure, we showed the most popular entry points into the profession and the most likely ways of further development.

    Salary

    MoscowSt. PetersburgNizhny Novgorod
    min (10 per)55,00065,50041,500
    med (50 per)100,00080 50061,000
    max (90 per)130,00093,00065,000


    Comparative analysis


    But was it worth going to PM for salary? In our opinion, most likely not, and the table below confirms this. Although, it is worth considering that in some companies it is customary to pay project bonuses, which can significantly affect total income, but they are not taken into account in these statistics. Comparison of salaries in St. Petersburg.


    Some of you will definitely say that the numbers are underestimated / overestimated. Predicting this, we decided to compare our data (obtained from IT companies) with what the labor market currently offers. Comparison of St. Petersburg.

    The data was carefully collected by us in manual mode on the site hh.ru for the last month on November 25, 2011 .

    Personal qualities of a good PM:

    • Leadership skills
    • Be able to understand people
    • Sociability
    • Organization
    • The ability to be a damper for the team
    • Be able to predict and analyze
    • Psychological stability and maturity
    • Decency!




    PS: The post was prepared based on the results of our participation in the SPMConf conference

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