Survey

[George_Dodds]

Banking sector pays well in London but can be hard to get into.
They usually want previous experience of supporting servers in that sector.

[Pete Randall]

For those of us "pound challenged", Pete the currency converter supplies this:

15 to 25 = 23,783 to 39,638
25 to 45 = 39,638 to 71,349
45 to 70 = 71, 349 to 110,983


Pete

[Stuart Abramson_2]

I thought they used Euros in England, like the rest of the EU.

Aren't you in the EU?

[Karthik S S]

Hi,

I can see that US/UK/Canada salaries going neck to neck ...

When we talk about specialization which area do you think is on the top??

Performance
High Availabilty
Security
Networking
Database
Version Control
Directory Services
Storage (SAN/NAS)


-Karthik S S

[Con O'Kelly]

Hi

Down here in Australia, like everywhere it depends on location, skillset & industry. Sydney generally pays best and as always so does the finance sector!

A rough guide (though Michael & others may disagree) would be:

Junior: 30K-55K
Intermediate: 55K-85K
Senior: 75K-100+K

Thats Aus $$ so we don't earn as much as UK but then the beer & coffee is cheaper!! A few years back it was great heading off to work in London & sending those pounds back here!!

As regards the specialization, well its pretty hard to say. For a UNIX SA, I'd probably go for High Availabilty (good experience with clustering sw such as ServiceGuard, Veritas etc) and SAN (EMC, XP etc).

Cheers
Con

[Karthik S S]

So far so good ... we have the figures for the following countries,

USA, Canada, UK and Australia

I will add India to this list :-)

Junior 6k-15K
Inter 15k-30k
Senior 30k-70k

Bangalore/Mumbai/Delhi/Noida/Hyderabad/Chennai are on top ..!!

PS: I have changed my Forum ID from techssk to "Karthik S S" :-)

aka

Karthik Somalinga Sivakumar


-Karthik S S

[Michael Tully]

Like all things to do with money it is market driven, especially where experience with a range of different things, so totally agree with Con. Sydney will be much higher than say Brisbane and slightly above Melbourne (but who'd live there anyway ...) Anyone with management experience can add a bit more to the bottom line of the Senior column.

Cheers
Michael (whose off for a beer right now .... 5PM)

[Tim D Fulford]

Stuart

UK left (was kicked out) of the European Exchange Mecanism (ERM) ins Sept 1992!!!!

"IRONICALLY" I sign of with "thats my 0.02??? worth", but thats it...

Tim

[Caesar_3]

Hi,

About the specialization for my opinion and also the market looks like that to get good
money you must be profesional in every issue
that you wrote!
But for today the dominantic is DRP & Storage
also security.

Ceasar

[Brian Markus]

I agree with the posts, depends on experience. I also beleive it depnds on depth of knowledge. Is this a local admin, or global admin, and is this one or many OS's (HPUX/AIX/Solaris). How many machines, are they clustered. Also, I've noticed most of the jobs lately require an in-depth knowledge of the Microsoft world as well.


Out here in Sunny California:

Junior: 35K-50K (US Dollars)
Intermediate: 51K-90K (US Dollars)
Senior: 91K-150+K (US Dollars)

This sounds great, however, the cost of living out here is really high. In some places it costs over $400,000.00 (US Dollars) to buy a run down 1-2 bedroom home.

(I saw a job posted for a Sr. Admin @ 250K, to run a team of Jr's) It was global and required a TON of travel. These jobs sound great at first, but most people burn out really quickly.

-Brian

[Karthik S S]

250K? ... r u joking? :-) ... but after reading you cautionary lines I am clear now ..

Is there any good Doc. available on basics of SAN??

-Karthik S S

[Mike Fisher_5]

Hi Karthik I'm back... Long weekend
SAN? Someone recently gave me this link
Works for me - but I'm a simple soul
http://www.storagesearch.com/auspexart.html

[Karthik S S]

Hi Mike,

Great to have u here back :-) ... hope u enjoyed nicely ..

That seems to be a good link ... but google search let me to a better link :-)) .. though it is little (as little as lil) IBM specific they have explained the general terminologies and SAN concepts very nicely.

http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/SG245470.html

You can see the link on the right hand corner for downloading the PDF.

-Karthik S S

[Mike Fisher_5]

Karthik - I've saved your link - Very good
However - my offering has better cartoons

[Pete Randall]

Mike,

Off to see "The Championship", were you?


Pete "Fore" Randall

[Mike Fisher_5]

Pete:

Do you think my balls glow in the dark?
It was my turn to provide the food for when we get locked in "after hours"
Cheeses, hams 'n' port to die for

Mike "a good walk spoilt" Fisher

[Pete Randall]

Mike,

I hope never to find out what your balls do after dark!

"locked in "after hours""????


Pete

[Mike Fisher_5]

Pubs here are licensed to sell alcohol
There are a lot of dumb rules
One of them is "licensing hours"
My local can SELL alcohol up until 2300hrs
Then you have a legal amount of "drinking up time" [it varies, but 20 minutes here]

A "lock in", "shut in" or "after hours" is where the licensee invites people to stay on afterwards

No law is broken if the alcohol is not SOLD
There are other gambits to get around the law

It is the NANNY STATE
They think that they have a right to infringe on personal privacy & freedom

Mike "where's our constitution then?" Fisher

[Karthik S S]

Mike,

I request you to read my first post of this thread which may perhaps remind you that we are disscussing something else than Bar timings :-)) ...

I don't want to see this thread also being deleted.

Thanks,
Karthik

[Pete Randall]

Mike,

That's cool! Around here, you get 20 minutes or so after last call to finish up and then they throw you out into the street - period (though I do believe there's an underground "lockin" policy).


Pete (Cheers!!) Randall

[Pete Randall]

Karthik,

Sorry about the Off Topic posts!


Pete

[Mike Fisher_5]

Have your thread back
I'm taking the ball home :)

[Karthik S S]

Pete/Mike,

Posts off the topic are definitely OK once in a while ... because I don't want this thread to become a boring one :-) ...

But when it becomes too frequent then Dan will have a reason to chop this thread off ...

Thanks for understanding.

-Karthik S S

[Martin Johnson]

George D.

By your estimate of 1K salary per age, I should be retired by now - based on my salary.

:-)
Marty

[Mike Fisher_5]

Marty
On the Dodds Salary Standard
I'm just glad my birthday isn't February 29th

Mike "a little bit closer to the topic" Fisher