♦ InfoEdge Research Source - About Foote Partners LLC

Foote Partners LLC, founded in 1997, is a New Canaan, Connecticut based management consultancy and IT workforce research firm comprised of former Gartner Inc., META Group, and McKinsey & Company consultants and analysts, human resources executives and compensation professionals, and IT managers. The firm employs innovative “IT insider” data collection methods and analytical techniques involving nearly 50,000 IT workers to produce highly accurate, constantly updated, consistent and comprehensive research views on IT management and compensation trends in North America and Europe. Its consulting practice areas include strategic resource management, business process management, and enterprise project delivery.

Their products include:

Quarterly Hot Technical Skills & Certifications Pay Index (HTSCPI) featuring market pricing for over 170 skills and certifications surveyed among IT workers in 125 cities in the US, Canada and Europe.

Total Compensation Pay Reports grouping together salary/bonus survey data for IT jobs in 20 U.S. cities (5 in Canada), plus related skills and certifications market pay data, in a single package. There are reports for:

Applications Development & Programming Languages
Architecture
Database
Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence
E-Commerce
Networking
Project Management
SAP
Security
Web/Internet
Windows

Foote Partners IT “Insider” Methodology: Precise, Up-to-date, Consistent Pay Data

The unique nature of information technology jobs and staffing makes passive surveying of Human Resource departments to obtain compensation information an extremely inaccurate method. In the early 1990’s Foote Partners discovered a better method — dubbed “IT insider” — that produces substantially better results when tracking pay for individual jobs, city by city and job by job.

In an extensive effort that continuously monitors the compensation of nearly 50,000 private and public sector IT workers, Foote Partners receives a constant flow of confidential compensation data directly from hundreds of IT and business executive “research partners” with whom Foote Partner’s senior research team have established long-time, trusted relationships over many years as industry analysts and consultants at top firms like McKinsey & Company, Gartner Inc., and META Group. From these special research partners Foote Partners receives—at a minimum—the same confidential compensation data their HR departments possess.

Equally important in this “IT insider” data collection process are research partnerships with nearly 400 HR professionals, who can report valuable data to Foote’s exacting standards. Multiple validation techniques are painstakingly applied to closely match actual job duties and skills to IT job titles using direct interviewing and aggressive interactive surveying. Overall, this uniquely effective “IT insider” methodology produces constantly refreshed ‘real world’ salary, certifications and skills pay data that is validated, reliable, accurate and consistent