Filipino IT Professionals Lowest Paid in Asia-Pacific

(The Philippine Daily Inquirer) - IT professionals in the Philippines receive the lowest salaries in Asia Pacific, according to a study by ZDNet Asia.

The average annually salary in the Philippines was slightly above $10,000, based on a survey of some 400 respondents.

Hong Kong, meanwhile, tops the list of seven countries surveyed, with IT professionals raking in close to an average of $52,000 every year.

Findings also show that executives with more experience earn more, although IT workers with five to 10 years of work experience earn an average of less than $10,000 per year.

Those with more than a decade worth of industry experience earn close to $20,000 annually.

Company size isn't much of a factor as those working for places with a thousand employees or more are only paid slightly higher at more than $11,000 yearly.

At 26 percent, the Philippines also has the lowest portion of IT workers holding at least one professional certification, even lower than Indonesia .

The survey, conducted online between August and November last year, drew more than 5,000 respondents from different industries in Hong Kong, India , Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines.