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SAGE 2003 Salary Survey Announced
MrRules writes "The 2003 SAGE Salary Survey is now open for business. Last year's survey (results here,
slashdot articles here
and here)
was quite an interesting read. Last year saw over 10,000 participants, making it the largest global participation sysadmin salary survey ever.
This year there is a separate survey for those who have been unemployed for more than 26 weeks, so we should be able to see some real information on what has been happening in the "jobless recovery", and what effect outsourcing has been having on this sector.
The survey is conducted annually by SAGE, the professional association for practising system administrators." As a general rule, I *hate* linking to surveys, but SAGE's is one that's definitely worthwhile..
Hello there! In a similar vein, http://www.engineersalary.com/ provides salary statistics for many, many types of engineers. All you have to do is answer a few questions about just what precisely it is you do, and it will do its best to pull records of similar people.
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The Engineering Salary Calculator searches over 253,000 records in our database, and returns your salary result based on degree, experience, position, industry, skills and location (within a 50 mile radius). Your result is obtained from a minimum of 100 matching profiles. If you search a location that doesn't have at least 50 matching salary records, the area expands from 50 to 75, then to a 90 mile radius. Records older than 360 days are excluded.
In the case of a unique skill set combination (if the database can't locate more than 25 matches for the location using the 50-75-90 rule), it will expand the boundaries to state, then region... and finally nationwide. In densely populated metros like San Jose or Boston, your salary result is compiled using hundreds of records (in most categories)... but in less populated areas (parts of Montana as an example) the search has to expand to a wider area to provide a relevant comparison.
The calculator is designed to always return a result. There are cases where it will not return a local result: MS in Mechanical Engineering, working as the Chief Engineer for a Nanotechnology company in AK. In cases where a search produces too few salary matches nationally (threshold <250), the result is compiled by performing an interpolation of all available data. An unreasonable set: Nuclear Engineer, working in RF with skills in Aerodynamics - will generate a result that is not credible.
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Michael C. Hollinger
I would for the most part agree with you that a sysadmin is less susceptible however, with remote administration capability, it is not totally immune or off the plate. I have seen quite a push in my organization to do exactly that -- remote administer not only workstations, but servers as well.
As opposed to what? Are you joking? You can't force people to take a survey. All surveys (with the exception of a census, I guess) are voluntary.
Article header did not mention this salary survey only applies to system administrators. I got to page 2 before I figured it out myself. This is what you get when you let system administrators submit articles.
Neither the header nor the survey itself mentions if this is US only. This is what you get when you let system administrators create surveys.
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