Salary increment for IT Pros with experience or with certification ?

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hiya IT pros, check out the IT Salary survey 2006 below http://redmondmag.com/salarysurveys/article.asp?editorialsID=88 According to the stats,overall salaries jump 3.3% across the industry. From the trends in the report, IT pros benefit the most in a Cert (e.g:MCSE) if going to land a new better paying job, from contract to perm.? However, once hired into the job, especially into a perm position, there seems to be not much incentive to "cram" for next cert. If all things be equal (age,education,experience) in the long term, same salary scale between a certified and non-certified person appears to be the same eventually. So there appears to be 2 school of thought, among my IT peers. The 1st group: since your IT skills is almost 90% learn on the job,do a good job, get a good testimonial when leaving for next job,SAVE the money for management course (cos' most IT manager have good technical training, but sucks in business management!) 2nd group: Invest and prioritise your time to study for the cert, do the minimal requirement in your job(during your contract), hope to land a perm position for the next job (with yr cert) anyone (IT Pros or IT recruiters) cares to share your opinions on which strategy is better or any alternative provided is welcome~!