Average salary increased to $87,000 in Kansas, according to survey
Kansas increased by almost 20 percent compared to 8 percent nationally
U.S. tech workers earn more: $96,000 on average
While the average worker’s salary has stagnated for decades, tech worker salaries continue to boom and nowhere are they rising faster than in Kansas, according to a new report by Dice, a career site for technology professionals.
The average salary in Kansas increased 20 percent between 2014 and 2015 for tech workers, according to the report, the second biggest increase in the nation behind North Dakota.
The increase nationally was around 8 percent for tech workers. This was the biggest increase in the past five years. By contrast the wage for an average worker only increased about 2 percent the prior year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Still, although tech worker salaries made a huge leap in Kansas last year to around $87,000, according to the report, it is still below the national average for tech workers of $96,000.
More than 60 percent of tech workers received a raise, mostly as a result of raises within the same company, according to the report. And in a handful of cities the average raise increased to more than $100,000, such as in New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Seattle.
The data was based on a survey of more than 16,000 employed technology professionals in the Fall of 2015, according to Dice, through email and pop-up invitations.
| Year | Salary |
| 2005 | $63,744 |
| 2006 | $64,844 |
| 2007 | $67,657 |
| 2008 | $71,686 |
| 2009 | $77,761 |
| 2010 | $67,641 |
| 2011 | $72,419 |
| 2012 | $76,333 |
| 2013 | $77,022 |
| 2014 | $72,791 |
| 2015 | $87,212 |
Reprinted from: The Wichita Eagle 2.2.16
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