The findings are part of the 2000 IT Salary Survey conducted by the Nanyang Technological University's Information Management Research Center (Imarc) and the Information Technology Management Association.
Last year's increases were partly due to the rebound factor, as salaries in the industry had fallen in 1999.
The 2000 pay hike was across the board, but the percentages varied. System-development project leaders saw the smallest rises, with an average increment of 5 percent.
IT support officers got an average of 33 percent more than before, while Web masters topped the list with their gross salaries upped by an average of 36 percent. This pushed their average annual pay packet to S$60,000.
Apart from paying their staff more, companies also put more money into training, and recruited more workers from abroad. This nearly doubled the percentage of foreign workers in the industry, to 15 percent of the IT workforce, with the bulk of them--35 percent--coming from Malaysia. The second largest group of foreigners--22 percent--were from India.
Nor do the good times seem over, despite the gloom and doom in the dot-com scene.
Assistant professor Christine Koh of Imarc feels that "Web-related positions are still in high demand in the market.
"Even though the dot-com bubble may have burst," she told The Straits Times that "established brick-and-mortar companies are still increasing their Web presence."
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