All questionnaires for respondents claiming a salary of less than $10,000 or more than $200,000 were visually inspected to make sure the answers were penciled in correctly. then full-time salaries below $10,000 and salaries of $300,000 or more for persons with less than 6 years of professional food-related experience were eliminated from the tabulations, since they appear to be unrealistic. Only salary data for full-time employees and for 10 or more respondents were presented here. The data are presented in terms of the median salary, meaning that half of the respondents make more than that amount and half make less.
Median salaries continue to increase, while IFT membership demographics and employment status remain essentially unchanged.
Members of the Institute of Food Technologies earned a median salary of $65,000 in late 1999, $5,000 higher than in 1997, an 8.3% increase. Median salaries increased for all degree levels - BS, MS, PhD, and MBA - but women still generally make lass than men.
000These are some of the findings from the most recent IFT Membership Employee & Salary Survey, which is conducted every two years
under the sponsorship of the IFT Employment Committee.
000The 24-question survey was mailed to Members and Professional Members of IFT in the United States in November 1999. The questionnaire was completely anonymous and confidential, and all returns were tabulated by Data Lab Corp, Niles, Ill. By the cutoff date in December, 4,950 responses from 19,348
delivered questionnaires had been received, for a 26% return.
000This article reports the results in three sections - IFT membership demographics,
employment data, and salary data. The demographics and employment data are most exactly the same as they have been for the previous three surveys. The median salaries have increased, as would be expected.
Salary Data
Salary 1999 Survey
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Table 1: Median salary of full-time employees by degree, years of experiences, and sex, all types of business combined.
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