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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. As a developer... by netsavior · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It would be nice if my company (and my previous company) could afford a Sysadmin... Be happy if you can be in the Sysadmin survey cause every developer I know is in a "Self-admin" shop... where the network has 100 band-aids and nobody can quite remember all of the Root passwords.

  2. Re:Sobering Thought by dev11 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I am not sure if this is the peak or not. Certainly it is at best at a state of diminishing returns right now. I think this is just part of the shakedown that was inevitable after the boom of the 90's. The day of the HTML "developer" making 100k a year are long past. The overall quality of the tech sector will be better but smaller in size. Those of us are competant will still be able to find work, although some concessions may be necessary, such as relocating.

    At least with sysadmin, I would think the chances of having your job outsourced to India or somewhere else are less, at least some on site presence is still required. With a smaller tech sector, I think a diverse skill set will be mandatory. I myself am a part time admin, part time developer, and am always looking to expand my skill set. Browsing employment ads recently, employers seem to want an ever expanding set of skills and experience. I have BS in CS, and 6 years experience, but I may end up doing some of the (mostly meaningless) certs that HR drones seem to like.