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To: Bonnie Bear who wrote (37791)	5/1/1999 1:13:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86076

Bonnie, I generally feel that the employment market hasn't caught up with the changes in IT and thats why its hard to fill those slots, just a guesstimate but I believe last decade there was a lot of complex software infrastructure work going on but it was through IBM. So of course the software specialists at IBM made good money etc. Inside the IT shops themselves you had report writers, user support etc. and those were lower level jobs. Now its a different matter, every IT shop is doing the tough jobs and if you look at the salaries and staffing levels its kind of a joke, the salaries are 1/2 what an engineer would make and yet its the same task. So they backfill with "consultants" which are really just employees that need to be hired but are over the personnel maximums for salary. They make an issue out of IT labor shortages but the issue is just pay I feel.