Yoh Index Reports Continued Strength in Tech Wages

PHILADELPHIA—July 23, 2007—Wages for highly-skilled technology professionals in 2007 continue to surpass pay rates from 2006, and remained strong this year. According to the Yoh Index of Technology Wages, the quarterly compensation index used by Fortune 500 companies to determine salary scales, the average hourly wage for high-impact technology workers was recorded at $31.61 during the middle of the second quarter of 2007, only a slight dip from last quarter's $31.80, the highest average wage recorded by the Yoh Index of Technology Wages since its inception in 2001.

"It's not unusual for overall pay rates to follow slow spring and summer hiring trends, but technology wages still held on strong this year and continued to improve over 2006," says Jim Lanzalotto, Vice President of Strategy and Marketing for Yoh.  "Despite a recent report that tech professionals were less confident about jobs this past month, top talent has every reason to stay confident about the job market. We are seeing a good, steady pace for hiring tech professionals with high-level skills and deep-rooted industry experience. We should keep an eye out for more competitive wages to come during the remainder of 2007, and into 2008 as the marketplace continues to heat up."

The Yoh Index of Technology Wages reached 112.93 during the second quarter of 2007, when indexed to January 2001 (1/2001 = 100), indicating a 4.29% increase in wage growth, when compared with the same period in 2006.



Compiled quarterly by Yoh, one of the world's largest recruiting services firms for high-impact technology and professional talent, the Yoh Index of Technology Wages is used by emerging technology and Fortune 500 firms as a guide for determining their quarterly salary scales. Each Yoh Index of Technology Wages report identifies the top job titles in highest demand and provides an index to compare current average wages over the same period last year.

The high-impact jobs in greatest demand nationwide during the first quarter of 2007, and their average hourly pay rates as determined by the Yoh Index of Technology Wages, are:  

Ÿ Aerospace Engineer	$49.98
Ÿ Civil Engineer	$38.73
Ÿ Clinical Research Associate	$49.42
Ÿ Database Administrator	$57.36
Ÿ Functional Consultant	$78.40
Ÿ Hardware Designer	$65.63
Ÿ Java Developer	$55.62
Ÿ Mechanical Engineer	$42.47
Ÿ Network Administrator	$38.77
Ÿ Project Manager	$58.65
Ÿ SAP® Technical Consultant	$85.53
Ÿ SAS Programmer	$52.77

The Yoh Index of Technology Wages provides a unique barometer of the changes in employer demand and supply of technology talent nationwide. It is not based on polls, surveys, projections or other anecdotal evidence. The Yoh Index of Technology Wages is built on solid data compiled by Yoh's 75 U.S. field offices and uses actual employment activity of as many as 5,000 technology professionals outsourced on short- and long-term projects by more than 1,000 of the nation's top employers in the aviation, engineering, information technology, manufacturing, scientific, telecommunications and utility industries. For more information or to sign up to receive future editions of the Yoh Index of Technology Wages before they are released, please visit yoh.com/yohindex. 

About Yoh
Yoh is one of the largest providers of talent and outsourcing services to customers in the United States. With over 380 Million USD in total sales, Yoh operates from more than 75 locations and provides long- and short-term temporary and direct placement of technology and professional personnel, as well as managed staffing services, for the information technology, scientific, engineering, health care and telecommunications communities. For more information, visit yoh.com. Yoh is part of Yoh Services LLC, a Day & Zimmermann Company.

About Day & Zimmermann
Day & Zimmermann accelerates customer success by delivering diversified services. Operating from more than 150 worldwide locations with 1.9 Billion USD in revenues, the Day & Zimmermann family of companies employs 20,000 professionals and is currently ranked as one of the largest private companies in America by Forbes and is a former winner of the U.S. National Family Business of the Year award. Founded in 1901 and headquartered in Philadelphia, PA, Day & Zimmermann companies today provide staffing services, architectural-engineering-construction services, power plant maintenance and modification services, security services, and validation services to businesses and government agencies, and munitions production, equipment maintenance and facilities management services to the Department of Defense.  For more information, visit dayzim.com.