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SAGE 2004-2005 Salary Survey Announced

Posted by Zonk on from the making-money-for-profit dept.

Nalez writes "The ever-popular SAGE Salary Survey is ready to go and available to all computer administrators. Everyone who participates will get a copy of the results. The survey takes 17-20 minutes to complete. SAGE members can access the 2003 results and you can read all about previous SAGE surveys."

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  1. San Francisco Bay Area Quesiton... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Most of the PC Technician contracts I been getting in the San Francisco Bay Area are usually between $16 to $20 per hour. However, I been getting offers for work outside the SF Bay Area (mostly in Southern California) for $50 to $60 per hour for the same kind of work. Can anyone explain the difference?

  2. Re:Canadian Salary Data? by AutopsyReport · · Score: 1, Informative
    The Canadian Job Futures should give you a good start on average salaries, expected education and/or experiences, and future outlooks for a variety of jobs.

    It's an excellent site to gauge a careers' prospects.

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  3. Considering the lack of experience demanded. by Inoshiro · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's about right.

    That's 28 grand a year, before taxes. In Canada, that'd be enough to live comfortably (where the poverty line is about 16 grand before taxes). Unless you live in one of the expensive areas of the US, I suspect that'd be enough too. Hotel managers in Hawaii make about that, for example.

    Making that much money means you get more money per year than about 60-70% of the population. There is a large gap between rich and poor in the US.

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  4. These Surveys Used To Sell IT Training by uncleroot · · Score: 5, Informative

    As someone formally employed in the IT certification training industry, I can tell you that the results of these surveys are often used by unscrupulous salespeople to sell expensive courses and training "kits" (over-priced boxes of cheaply bound, poor quality books and a CD or two) to gullible persons looking to get into IT. Let's say experienced Cisco admins are making $65k/year according to the survey. This information is pitched to prospective students to imply that they will make $65k if they just buy the $5000 CCNA course and pass the exam. Of course a CCNA and no job experience is unlikely to get you a job at all much less a high paying one. I'll name names: Intense School, Wave Technologies, TechSkills, and by far the worst, New Horizons.

    1. Re:These Surveys Used To Sell IT Training by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Add another one called Quilogy to that list of unscrupulous tech mills. I had the dubious honor of working with them on both their consulting and training sides. What a joke. Not once did I hear anyone ask what is good for the students or clients, but rather how much can we bill them for? How many students can we get from XYZ Company into the one week $2000 Microsoft .Net intro course?

    2. Re:These Surveys Used To Sell IT Training by TreyHarris · · Score: 3, Informative

      I'm not sure whether you meant that the people who do the surveys market IT training or that third parties do so, but let me make one thing clear: SAGE is a nonprofit membership organization, and we do not have salespeople market to participants of the Salary Survey (for that matter, we don't even have any salespeople).

      The Salary Survey is a service provided by SAGE to the public as part of our mission to "advance the status of computer system administration as a profession."

      Trey Harris
      Interim Director, SAGE