Although prior studies have studied how foreign-born or immigrant workers fare in terms of their wages in the United States compared to native or American Information technology (IT) professionals, we know very little about wage differences in compensation of foreign-born and native IT professionals in other geographies. In addition, in the last two decades or so, there have been significant changes in underlying technologies, and it is not clear how such changes influenced any wage differences and mobility between foreign-born and native IT professionals. Against this backdrop, our goal in this exploratory study is to leverage a new longitudinal dataset from Finland to explore wages and mobility of foreign-born IT professionals. Our analyses of individual-level data from Statistics Finland (1995-2020) suggests that female employees, and employees with immigration status earn less than their counterparts. However, these effects are significantly weaker in ICT jobs compared to other job categories. The pay gap between employees with and without immigration status in ICT jobs decreases over time, and this trend is more pronounced in ICT jobs compared to other job categories. For mobility, we find that foreign-born IT professionals are less likely to be promoted or leave the company. We discuss implications for research and practice.
