Research the average and/or median salaries for IT professionals. You can use a variety of methods to find this information, such as searching the Web for online sites that publish the results of salary surveys for IT professionals. You can also look at classified ads in newspapers, trade magazines, and/or online.

a. Is there a significant difference between typical salaries for system analysts, designers and developers?

b. Roughly, what is the difference in the typical salaries for these different groups?

c. What do you think are the reasons for the difference?

d. Is there a gender gap in the salaries of IT professionals? Discuss any trends that you found and the implications.