LSC recently released its 2007 Fact Book, which contains a wealth of information on client demographics, private attorney involvement and staffing at LSC-funded organizations. According the Fact Book, there were 116 full-time IT Managers at LSC-funded organizations in 2007, with an average salary of $50,959 (comparable to that of a Staff Attorney at $51,680).
Only 30% of IT Managers were women, which is just slightly higher than the overall percentage of women in professional IT industry positions (26% in 2007, according to the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology). Comparatively, women at LSC-funded organizations represented approximately 82% of Paralegals, 67% of Staff Attorneys, 60% of Supervising Attorneys, 54% of Managing Attorneys, 48% of Deputy Directors, and (notice a trend here?) 32% of Executive Directors.
With regards to race, approximately 62% of IT Managers at LSC-funded organizations in 2007 were Caucasian, 14% African American, 14% Latino, 8% Asian/Pacific Islander and 3% Native American. In 2004, African Americans made up approximately 9% of the overall professional IT workforce, Asians 9% and Latinos just under 6% (NCWIT 2007 Scorecard). Finally, about 8% of IT Managers at LSC-funded organizations were attorneys and their average number of years in the profession was 13.3 (3.3 years longer than the average Staff Attorney and 4.9 years less than the average Supervising Attorney). -M