Salary guide: Keep up with how much you are worth

We've discussed a bit about the bull market for compliance professionals these days. Many of you have likely been contacted by headhunters. You can thank Sarbanes-Oxley for a lot of that. The good news is that the strong economy coupled with compliance-oriented needs are driving demand and salaries even higher. The person most likely to get the biggest raise to base salary at companies with at least $250 million in revenue is the chief compliance officer. These guys are expected to get a 14.4 percent boost, resulting in starting salaries between $132,500 to $181,250. Internal audit managers will see their base pay boosted 5.8 percent, to between $77,500 to $101,500 for 2007. You really ought to stay up with these trends. The last thing you want is get shorted. That's like losing money in bull market.

- read this article from AccountingWeb
- access the 2007 salary guide from Robert Half International