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Post-crash Salary Survey

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. why do they need my e-mail??? by targo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Any survey where the very first question is "What is your e-mail address?" makes me very very suspicious, especially when they collect all sorts of financial data as well.
    Still, given Slashdot's anti-spam attitude, I thought that maybe they are a decent organization and checked their privacy policy. Vain hope, it actually bluntly says: SAGE might also use this email address to notify you of other related news and we all know what this usually means, right?
    Now call me paranoid but I've been burned by much more innocent looking sites asking for my e-mail address.

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    1. Re:why do they need my e-mail??? by PD · · Score: 5, Informative

      They need the address because, contrary to the misleading /. article write-up, the surveys are not in fact out. They haven't even been handed in yet. That's the deal. You fill out the survey, and you hand it in. They calculate things, and then they will hand it back out with the results on May 1st. The e-mail address is so you can have a copy sent to you.

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  2. Re: Don't forget the Indian factor by Billly+Gates · · Score: 5, Informative

    Do not ignore the India factor. 38% of all IT jobs are now outsourced for minimal wage in India according to the garnet group. This was done not just for companies looking for cheap labor but also to keep the American market oversatuared and thus salaries go down to rock bottom.

    Most admin jobs are typically in the mid 30's now for 5 years experience and if you have many years perhaps you can make as much as 50k. The .com era is diffinetly over. I saw an ad in the paper for a jr FreeBSD admin for only 20k a year!

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