Post-crash Salary Survey

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday April 2, 2003 @07:07PM from the checking-out-the-world dept.

MrRules writes "It's that time again; the 2002 salary survey's are out. This year there's an interesting twist: SAGE, SANS and Sun's BigAdmin site have combined to run the largest global participation sysadmin salary survey ever done. What I like is that this is different to those surveys done by HR departments -- this is real data on how you spend your time, by sysadmins for sysadmins. It'll be interesting to see how things have changed over the past 18 months."

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military by drizuid · 2003-04-02 19:09 · Score: 2, Funny

Well, I'm a systems admin for the army, and you know what? I am almost positive every sysadmin job's salary is higher than mine.
1. Re:military by Eric+Ass+Raymond · 2003-04-02 21:01 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Until some of that hostile fire comes your way.
  What about friendly fire coming your way?
  
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2. Re:military by Flamerule · 2003-04-02 23:56 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I'm making roughly the equilivant of about $50,000 a year.
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  Of course, being in a hostile fire zone (read: no taxes) helps some. :)
  Until some of that hostile fire comes your way. No thanks, my life is worth more than ~$1K/month to me.
  Hm... $50,000 / 12 months = $4166.67 per month. Is your life worth more than that? Surely not.
3. Re:military by tim_uk · 2003-04-03 01:34 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Only if you are British...
small job by Syncroswitch · 2003-04-02 19:11 · Score: 5, Funny

I am currently admin for my laptop "." And I have to tell you I dont pay myself squat. damn the management.
Hard data... by Monkelectric · 2003-04-02 19:18 · Score: 3, Funny

My salary declined 100% to 0 FUCKING DOLLARS per hour, week, month AND year. And i'm pretty sure its a republicans fault.
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1. Re:Hard data... by cliveholloway · 2003-04-02 20:30 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  wow, so you were on $0 before as well. amazing...
  
  cLive ;-)
  
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heh.. we don't do much.. by marcushnk · 2003-04-02 19:21 · Score: 5, Funny

If the /.ed state of the server is anything to go by.. We just sit around /. all day and bring down servers collectivly..

oh well.. back to my coffee..

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The punchline? by Captain+Beefheart · 2003-04-02 19:45 · Score: 3, Funny

"If you worked less than two months during 2002, please skip this survey."
Houston, we have a problem.
For once... by mikeophile · 2003-04-02 19:51 · Score: 4, Funny

It looks like us geeks are bringing down the curve.
A Grammar Nazi Writes .... by Burb · 2003-04-02 19:53 · Score: 5, Funny

survey's? surveys!

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In a twist of irony... by Regul8or · 2003-04-02 20:01 · Score: 3, Funny

...the sysadmins that run the linked site in the article get a payraise for dealing with a /.ing.
Re:Pay Cuts by archeopterix · 2003-04-02 22:21 · Score: 2, Funny

I know that they probably have the best intentions, but which is preferable? Cut 5 peoples salary 20% and keep them all on? Or fire one person because you can't cut salaries?
Declare bankrupcy, go unemployed and take advantage of the benefit system. Socialism rocks :-)
Re:Are there still sysadmin only jobs out there? by gujo-odori · 2003-04-02 22:22 · Score: 3, Funny

> shit, where are the 6-figure positions???

Yeah, but s/he didn't say how many of those six figures were to the left of the decimal point :-)