Top CIO salaries in government beat the private sector
[This is a fuller version of an article on ComputerWeekly.com.]
Top CIO salaries in the UK public sector are among the best in the world .
Typical CIO salaries in the UK and US are between £100,000 and £200,000. In New York, median CIO salaries tend to be higher than elsewhere in the US, according to PayScale. The median salary in New York is between $150,000 (£91,827) and $250,000 (£153,000), based on a survey sample size of 1,866 individuals.
Online recruitment specialist The IT Job Board said that top tier CIOs in London earn about £170,000. The recruiter is advertising for a London-based IT director/CTO for a multinational company, at a salary of up to £120,000.
Several IT experts working in central government in the UK earn much more.
Joe Harley, CIO at the Department for Work and Pensions, earned up to £270,000 in 2008/9, though it should be remembered that the DWP is the biggest public service delivery department in the UK, with more than 100,000 desktops.
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