The PayScale Index (US): Trends in Compensation

2012: Recent wage growth in the information, media and telecommunications industry halted in Q1 2012, as earnings dipped slightly from the previous quarter. However, due to the strong growth in 2011, wages in Q1 2012 were still up 1.5 percent year-over-year.

2007-2011: The combination of software and online publishing together with print publications in a single industry resulted in the strength of one being canceled out by the weakness of the other. The net result is that wages in the information industry basically tracked national wage trends during this period.

Information industry workers’ earnings had a solid rise in 2007, weakened in 2008 (perhaps a little more than other industries), and dropped substantially during 2009. They made no significant recovery in 2010.

Wages in this industry showed their first significant sign of recovery in Q4 2011, rising more than 1 percent over the previous quarter.

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The information, media and telecommunications industry (51), as defined by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), includes the following: newspaper publishers, book publishers, software publishers, video production, music recording, television broadcasting, wireless telecommunications, web search portals, libraries. View the full definition on Census.gov.

The PayScale Index tracks quarterly changes in total cash compensation for full-time, private industry employees in the United States. In addition to a national index, it includes separate indices for specific industries, metropolitan areas, job categories, and company sizes. The PayScale Index uses 2006 average total cash compensation as a baseline.

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