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Data mining/data warehouse professionals are among the highest paid IT managers and staffers, according to the 2007 InformationWeek IT Salary Survey. Based on information collected from more than 7,000 IT workers, the survey shows that median base salaries (not including bonuses) for IT workers in 2007 edged upwards for the first time in several years, but specialty, gender, age, and location made a big difference in earnings.

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Among managers, data mining/warehouse specialists pulled in the third highest base salaries (after Web infrastructure and ERP).

[Data mining managers base annual salary in 2007 was 108,000, vs 111,000 in 2006 and 97,000 in 2005. Editor]

For non-managerial staff, data mining/warehouse is the second-highest specialty for base pay (behind enterprise application integration); application development and database analysis & development landed at fifth and sixth, respectively. Security followed in seventh.

[Data mining staff salary was 88,000 in 2007, 80,000 in 2006, and 77,000 in 2005].

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