High-tech salaries buck trend

Salaries rose in different high-tech sectors in 2007.

by Zeev Klein 
Globes
January 9, 2008

Salaries in the high-tech industry continued to grow in 2007, 
the Central Bureau of Statistics reports. Salaries in the four 
leading high-tech sectors rose by 1.3-6.5% in the first part of 
the year, while the average national salary fell by 2%. 

The average monthly salary in the telecommunications sector 
rose by 6.5%, or NIS 1,245, to NIS 20,334 in 2007, compared 
with NIS 19,089 in 2006. The average monthly salary in the 
R&D sector rose 1.3% to NIS 19,312, from NIS 19,070 in 2006. 
The average monthly salary in medical and scientific equipment 
sector increased 1.3%, to NIS 18,111, from NIS 17,884 in 2006, 
and the average monthly salary in the computer services sector 
rose 3.1%, or NIS 505, to NIS 17,015 from NIS 16,510 in 2006.