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Internet service provider IPSTAR Broadband is offering free satellite Internet services to regional Australians during the COVID 19 shutdown.

Freelance independent professionals in the United States technology industry - along with other industry sector professionals - are earning more than US$250 an hour for their work, according to a new report.

Mobile service provider Lycamobile has been penalised $25,000 for underpaying an employee’s wages, including full overtime entitlements.

Slow wage growth has hit the Australian employment market, but despite the slowdown, top IT workers can expect a pay rise in 2018, according to a newly published salary report.

Census data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows that people with university qualifications working in the IT industry are paid an average of 11.5% more than if they had no such qualifications.

Wages for IT professionals in some categories grew by as much as 30% in the five years taken in by the 2016 census, according to ABS figures cited by the IT Professionals Association.

Wage inequality compared to male colleagues, workplace gender bias and a shortage of female role models are among the main barriers faced by women working in the technology field, according to a new survey by global technology association ISACA.

As the saying goes, ‘money talks’, and it seems that’s the case for more than for six out of ten Australian employees who say the reason they leave organisations, and move sideways to a similar role, is about money.

Salaries for IT professionals in Christchurch are on the rise, according to a New Zealand recruitment agency which says that new data shows that wages in the city have ‘spiked at 10%’ in the past six months.