salaries

An expert in the Linux job market talks about earning a lucrative payday. Plus: the effect of H-1B visas on Linux salaries.

James Maguire covers an open source recruiting firm called Hot Linux Jobs.

""Most of the positions that we work on are going to [pay] at least high five-figure and up to the $150k base type area, Marinaccio [director of Hot Linux Jobs] says.

Companies pay Hot Linux Jobs a fee to find open source experts, so the openings tend to be mid- and senior-level posts.

(Of course most entry-level open source jobs pay nowhere near these salaries.

You can search over 500K jobs, companies and actual salaries offered by various fortune 500 companies across US.

A report from New York City-based consulting company Bluewolf says IT salaries across the board will continue to rise in 2008, with application developers leading the pack with 7.6 percent salary growth.

The increase brings application developers' salaries to between $112,500 from $80,250.