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For the average U.S. worker, wages have remained stagnant for approximately the last 40 years, according to 2015 research from the Economic Policy Institute, even as productivity and the number of hours worked has increased — except for those in STEM and IT careers, that is, where salaries saw the largest year-over-year increase ever from 2014 to 2015. The demand for knowledge workers in IT is increasing salary pressure on IT-dependent organizations in general and for specific skill sets in particular, says Tim Low, senior vice president of marketing for compensation benchmarking and analysis company PayScale.
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Source: COMPUTER WORLD