The agencies included in the survey population vary substantially by the size of their IT staff. Some agencies have more than 200 IT employees, others have fewer than 20. Therefore, we also grouped respondents according to the size of their agency IT staff as shown in Table 4. In subsequent sections of this report, we use three categories (small, medium, and large) to refer to the size of agency IT staff.

Table 4. Agency size categories by size of IT staff

Size Category	Range of IT Staff in the Agency	Number of Agencies in the Category	Number of Respondents	Percent of Respondents
Large	100 or more	16	2008	71%
Medium	50 to 99	11	532	19%
Small	< 50	27	293	10%
Total	- - -	- - -	2833	100%

The demographic profiles are very similar across agencies with different numbers of IT staff. However, they differ slightly with respect to agency tenure, private sector experience, and retirement plans. (See Table E3 in Appendix E for the complete profiles.) Nearly half of all employees in large and medium agencies have worked for a single agency throughout their tenure with New York State; this figure is slightly lower for employees in small agencies (40 percent). In addition, more than half of all employees in small and medium agencies have had private sector work experience whereas 45 percent of employees in large agencies have private sector work experience. With respect to retirement, 13 percent of non-managerial employees in large and small agencies plan to retire through 2009 compared to 9 percent in medium agencies. However, the retirement outlook changes significantly across all agency sizes by 2012, by which time almost one in four current employees plan to retire.