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That's salary above the average for IT workers.

The average IT worker makes $72000, while cybersecurity workers are making $78500, a 9% premium

Several years ago I was looking for some ranked ordering of IT careers via salary, allowing drilldown to things like different languages and specialities. It's something I slowly figured out via job hopping, but if the list would help people who enjoy X as much as Y realize that Y pays 20% more.

The bar graph is reflecting growth as a percentage. I think it would have been better to plot IT positions vs Cybersecurity positions to show the hockey stick growth that he is trying to illustrate.

I think the problem is that it's not a very useful graph. I think breaking out the overall IT into other areas would make more sense with smaller percentages being shown as "Other".