[ale] Linux admin position salary survey

[Jim Kinney]

The comments that begin around page 37 are the most telling of overall
sys-admin mentalities.

very sad.

I wish I could recall the source for the statistic: 90% of the people
who leave IT before retirement go into the alcohol industry. 5% go into
religion.

Gee. LISA Mgmt level 3 experience with 17+years but the pay rate of a
tech with 6 years...

On Mon, 2015-01-05 at 12:35 -0500, Jerald Sheets wrote:
> I think you’d be better served overall by educating with the following
> information:
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> https://www.usenix.org/system/files/lisa/surveys/lisa_2011_salary_survey.pdf
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> Whomever you would look to convince should know what we’re paid all
> over the world and then also locally at home to understand how good
> they have it in an Atlanta context compared to other places, and also
> that experience and certs carried plays a part in overall compensation
> as well.
> 
> 
> —jms
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> > On Jan 4, 2015, at 10:55 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
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> > 
> > On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Sergio Chaves
> > <sergio.chaves at gmail.com> wrote:
> >         http://www.indeed.com/salary/q-Linux-Administrator-l-Atlanta,-GA.html
> > 
> > That's too generic. I need a few hard numbers from actual people so
> > that I can show an average pay rate for the job I actually perform.
> > 
> > 
> > Visit http://open.ga.gov/index.html > select "Salaries & Travel
> > Reimbursments" > click the "Agree" button > choose "Person" > choose
> > "University System" > enter my last name. You'll see why I need some
> > real numbers.
> > 
> > 
> > I don't want to leave my current employer. We've had some
> > significant changes in the past 6 months, and I'm optimistic about
> > the future and enjoy what I do. But I cannot continue there with the
> > data you'll find in that search, and I can't wait for FY2016 to
> > start for it to be marginally better (maybe). So I want to give them
> > an immediate chance to get _much_ closer to a correct pay scale, but
> > I need data to show what that is.
> > 
> > 
> 
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