Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 09:05:25 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: rewt@i-Plus.net (Troy Settle) Cc: chat@freebsd.org, molter@logic.it Subject: Re: what is a fair wage for a system administrator? Message-ID: <199707091605.JAA21465@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199707091456.KAA21717@radford.i-plus.net> from "Troy Settle" at Jul 9, 97 11:00:39 am
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usenix posts a job salary servey on its website every year (somewhere you may need to be a member to access this data) data comes from usenix members sometimes the only way to get adequate compensations is to change jobs this is especially true if you are not good at blowing your own horn jmb Troy Settle wrote: > > This is a touchy situation for me. I also serve as a sysadmin on a part > time basis, and somehow got myself stuck with a very inadequate salary. > > Basically, my best suggestion to you, is to evaluate what your time and > skills are worth and ask for a salary that adequately compensates you. For > some, $10/hour would be fine. Others may feel that they want as much as > $40/hour or more. > > Good luck figuring it out, > > Troy Settle <st@i-Plus.net> > Network Administrator, iPlus Internet Services > http://www.i-Plus.net > > > ---- > From: Marco Molteni <molter@logic.it> > To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Wednesday, July 09, 1997 9:46 AM > Subject: what is a fair wage for a system administrator? > > >Howdy all! > > > >My ISP, which is running 2 NT boxes (Unix knowledge == 0), asked me to > >install and run a FreeBSD box, to be used as a "multi-host web server" > >(is it english? ;-) > >I'll be the system administrator, not the author of the web pages. > > > >I think I have an adeguate knowledge regarding Unix and tcp/ip > >networking to do such a job, altought I have been connected to the > >internet only via ppp (I mean I have never run a box connected 24h a > day). > > > >My questions are: > >1. since I've already a part-time work and I'm studying, I don't want to > >assign many hours for this new work. Are ten hours/month enough to cater > >to such a web server? (please try to limit flames ;-) > > > >2. any suggestion/examples for a fair wage? > > > > > >Marco Molteni > >Computer Science student at the Universita' di Milano, Italy. > >"The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things". > > > > > > >
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