On 11/12/2012 03:02 PM, Matt Simmons wrote:
I thought this might be of interest to some folks here:
http://www.rhi.com/SalaryGuides
--Matt
A few random and possibly stupid or incorrect observations:
* They apparently have no technical jobs in Alaska, or maybe based the
salaries on there? (it's missing from regional variance!)
* Of the 10 most expensive metros to live in,
http://www.cbsnews.com/8334-505145_162-57545911/top-10-most-expensive-metros-in-the-u.s/?pageNum=1&tag=MPnumbers
Hawaii is the only one who's regional variance is < 100, but that tends
to be the case with every job field in Hawaii.
* Web Administrators earn more than Systems Administrators, despite
being a bit more of a narrow field. At the best I've tended to consider
these two to be fairly synonymous roles I must admit, but then most of
my sysadmin background has been in web-facing companies.
* Messaging Administrators. People paid to just look after Exchange
servers and related infrastructure from what I can see are also maybe
paid more than sysadmins who might deal with exchange and lots of other
stuff too (am I under-selling Messaging Administrators? Is it that hard
a field, and if so.... why? This is email and groupware it's mostly fire
and forget surely? I barely had to touch the e-mail platforms at an ISP
I worked for and they were handling millions of e-mails a day.)
* Technical writers seem to be under-appreciated. You've got to be
technically adept /and/ have good communication skills, be capable of
targeting everything from basic users to extremely technical people, and
deal with all sorts of crap in attitudes and obstructions, yet earn
anything from 30k less than the salaries of those (at the starting end
of the scale) who created who created what you're documenting. Good
technical writers are worth their weight in gold!
Paul
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