The median salary for members of the Institute of Food Technologists in the United States climbed a relatively modest 4.4% to $87,700 over the past two years, according to the results of the 2009 IFT Membership Employment & Salary Survey conducted this past fall. In the 2007 survey, the median salary of $84,000 represented a 7.7% increase from 2005’s $78,000—a figure that wa…