We do not know what you earn. But we know your salary!

“We do not know what you earn. But we know your salary” was the title of the first pma quarterly of 2010 in Vienna. Nino Grau, member of the board of GPM and Vice President of IPMA and Ulrich Vossebein, managing partner of IMU (Institut für Marktanalysen und Umfrageforschung TransMIT GmbH), presented their career and salary survey of project managers of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (D-A-CH-region). In Austria the survey was supported by Projekt Management Austria.

The main results of the survey: The gross salary of project managers on average is 67.664 Euro. For this income they have to work 47,21 hours per week. Besides the working hours the salary is influenced by age, experience in project management, education in project management and the hierarchical level on which the project manager is situated. 

In Austria the gross salary of project managers averages 55.967 Euro. Brigitte Schaden, chairman of pma and president of IPMA: “I presume the lower average gross salary in Austria has two reasons. First: Austrian project managers who participated in the survey are younger than their colleagues in Germany and Switzerland - the age of Austrian project managers is on average only 36,5 years, the age of project managers in the D-A-CH-region in total 38,3. And second: there are rarely project managers in Austria on the higher income-levels of chairmen or divisional directors.”

Altogether 680 project manager participated in the online survey. 73,5 % of the interviewees have a university degree and 46,1 % have a certification of IPMA - 19,7 % Level D, 12,8 % Level C, 10,8 % Level B und 2,8 % Level A.

More details about the presentation in Vienna: www.p-m-a.at

Karin Kreutzer/pma

Photo: Nino Grau/GPM (left), Brigitte Schaden/pma und Ulrich Vossebein/IMU