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IT salary guides, technology compensation benchmarks, and pay trend analysis — helping employers set competitive offers and helping IT professionals understand their market value across roles, experience levels, and US metro areas.

How to Hire AI Engineers in 2026: The Complete Staffing Guide

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Hire AI engineers in 2026: budget $155K to $200K mid-level and $235K to $340K senior, with frontier-lab total comp clearing $380K. Strong candidates often accept within 2 to 3 weeks of going to market. Hiring AI engineers in 2026 means working a market where average salaries have climbed past $200,000, job postings nearly doubled year … Read more

How to Hire DevOps Engineers in 2026: The Complete Staffing Guide

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To hire a DevOps engineer in 2026, budget roughly $85K–$220K+ base depending on seniority and run a tight process: the fastest teams go from first call to signed offer in about three weeks, and KORE1 fills IT roles in 17 days on average. If you want to hire DevOps engineers in 2026, know this. We … Read more

How to Hire Cloud Engineers in 2026: The Complete Staffing Guide

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To hire a cloud engineer in 2026, budget roughly $90K-$200K+ by level across AWS, Azure, and GCP, screen for Infrastructure as Code and Kubernetes over certs, and move from first screen to offer in 2-3 weeks. Hiring a cloud engineer right now feels a lot like trying to buy a house in 2021. Everything moves … Read more

Successfully Navigate Any Hiring Market with KORE1’s Comprehensive 2024 Salary Guide

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While recent years saw a booming jobseeker’s market, the latest data from the U.S. Labor Department suggests things are cooling down. Despite more job openings than unemployed individuals (a hallmark of a strong market), signs point towards a shift in dynamics. Based on the data found in our guide, if we’re not already back to … Read more

Successfully Navigate Any Hiring Market with KORE1’s Comprehensive 2023 Salary Guide

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With a hiring market that continues to feel chaotic, it’s crucial for business leaders and professionals (regardless of industry or specialty) to continuously reference hard facts and data-backed trends. But there are so many varying forecasts for the current state of the U.S. job market depending on who you turn to. To help you navigate … Read more

The Hiring & Salary Guide to Get Ahead of the 2020 Landscape

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In an employment market where candidates have the upper hand, there’s no such thing as being too prepared. A number of things could happen in the coming year: unemployment may continue to fall, technological advancements could widen the already-extensive national skills gap, an economic downturn might even turn the entire workforce on its head – … Read more

Prepare for the New Year with Your 2019 Salary Guide

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As the market continues to boom and unemployment remains low, open positions are steadily outnumbering available professionals and impacting compensation figures. Determining the right salary to attract top industry talent without overpaying is becoming increasingly challenging. It’s equally challenging for candidates to understand the worth of their skills. Our 2019 Salary Guides are here to … Read more

Here’s Your 2017 IT & Creative Salary Guide

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Did you know 37% of IT professionals plan on searching for a new job this year? And 59% of those professionals say they’re underpaid. On the creative side, there are six open positions for every active candidate. The marketing and advertising industry is the second fastest growing sector in Inc. 5000 companies. Those are eye-opening … Read more

4 Realistic Tactics for Negotiating Salary in Your Next IT Job

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4 realistic tactics for negotiating salary in your next IT job — KORE1 career advice for technology professionals on compensation strategy

We often notice two distinct types of people in our searches for the right IT candidates. The first are candidates who are uncomfortable talking about money, so they don’t. The others are overly confident about how much they think they’re worth and hastily skip ahead to salary negotiation without much forethought or preparation. Either way, it’s a mistake waiting to happen. Here’s our two cents about tactics for negotiating salary in your next IT job.

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