Survey: 83% of IT security pros help co-workers fix their personal computers. 80% spend an hour or more per week doing this, according to FireMon survey. The average salary for an IT security professional is $55 an hour. This equates to roughly $3,000 a year in lost security work, the survey says. It also comes at a time when companies are scrambling to fill a shortage of security workers, the study says. An average IT security staff is roughly 31 workers, then that collective figure jumps to $88,660.”]