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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. 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 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