What are the highest paying IT careers?
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System Admin is the highest non- managerial slot. For pure tech nothing comes close. $350K isn't unheard of and the records are around $1.2m.
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Admin beats Engineer at the top end because operations is where the risk is.
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DBA and Network admin are at the next tier. Top Network Engineers tend to be over $200K. Top DBAs can reach for $160K+.
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Big Data jobs and security can get pretty close here.
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SMB is all the same two jobs.... generalist or generalist manager. All comes down to seniority, experience, market, etc.
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@scottalanmiller said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
SMB is all the same two jobs.... generalist or generalist manager. All comes down to seniority, experience, market, etc.
This is where I am, currently. What do you think national average is?
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@scottalanmiller said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
System Admin is the highest non- managerial slot. For pure tech nothing comes close. $350K isn't unheard of and the records are around $1.2m.
I am assuming linux/unix on this one?
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@wrx7m said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@scottalanmiller said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
SMB is all the same two jobs.... generalist or generalist manager. All comes down to seniority, experience, market, etc.
This is where I am, currently. What do you think national average is?
No idea about national average, nor would it likely be meaningful in any way. Pay is so dependent on the job, job role, company, level, and location that an average would be kind of meaningless. Imagine asking "what's the average pay of a business person" or "how much can you expect to earn as a business owner?" An average in anything like those would be totally meaningless.
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@wrx7m said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@scottalanmiller said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
System Admin is the highest non- managerial slot. For pure tech nothing comes close. $350K isn't unheard of and the records are around $1.2m.
I am assuming linux/unix on this one?
Linux is the highest, followed by the BSD, Solaris and AIX worlds
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Linux is the only one that I've seen go past the $300K mark. Solaris I've seen a lot above $200K.
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@scottalanmiller said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@wrx7m said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@scottalanmiller said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
SMB is all the same two jobs.... generalist or generalist manager. All comes down to seniority, experience, market, etc.
This is where I am, currently. What do you think national average is?
No idea about national average, nor would it likely be meaningful in any way. Pay is so dependent on the job, job role, company, level, and location that an average would be kind of meaningless. Imagine asking "what's the average pay of a business person" or "how much can you expect to earn as a business owner?" An average in anything like those would be totally meaningless.
Hmm... Oh well. I hit 6 figures this year.
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@wrx7m said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@scottalanmiller said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@wrx7m said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@scottalanmiller said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
SMB is all the same two jobs.... generalist or generalist manager. All comes down to seniority, experience, market, etc.
This is where I am, currently. What do you think national average is?
No idea about national average, nor would it likely be meaningful in any way. Pay is so dependent on the job, job role, company, level, and location that an average would be kind of meaningless. Imagine asking "what's the average pay of a business person" or "how much can you expect to earn as a business owner?" An average in anything like those would be totally meaningless.
Hmm... Oh well. I hit 6 figures this year.
That doesn't seem like an easy thing to do in the the typical SMB as a regular generalist employee.
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@tim_g said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@wrx7m said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@scottalanmiller said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@wrx7m said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@scottalanmiller said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
SMB is all the same two jobs.... generalist or generalist manager. All comes down to seniority, experience, market, etc.
This is where I am, currently. What do you think national average is?
No idea about national average, nor would it likely be meaningful in any way. Pay is so dependent on the job, job role, company, level, and location that an average would be kind of meaningless. Imagine asking "what's the average pay of a business person" or "how much can you expect to earn as a business owner?" An average in anything like those would be totally meaningless.
Hmm... Oh well. I hit 6 figures this year.
That doesn't seem like an easy thing to do in the the typical SMB as a regular generalist employee.
Actually SMB is one of the highest paying categories. But it is misleading. It's larger and very focused SMBs that might be small in people, but big in profits. They tend to behave like enterprises, even with relatively few people. Nearly all $300K+ jobs I know of are in the SMB range. Whereas the enterprise tends to dominate the $200K+ range.
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Most of the $300K+ jobs that I see are in companies that are 100+ people, but never getting to even 1,500 people.
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Ours is just over 100 people. I do live in Southern California, so it is commensurate-ish with high cost of living here.
Edit: therein lies the rub. I would love to live somewhere (out of state) less expensive but still work for this company and make at least what I make now... at least in the short term.
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Texas is really the best market, I think. Very low cost of living, no state income tax, nearly everything is cheaper than other tax free or low tax states, high legal mobility, and more local job opportunities than in most US markets, especially low cost ones. If you can get remote work and do it from Texas or Florida, you are golden.
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@scottalanmiller said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
Texas is really the best market, I think. Very low cost of living, no state income tax, nearly everything is cheaper than other tax free or low tax states, high legal mobility, and more local job opportunities than in most US markets, especially low cost ones. If you can get remote work and do it from Texas or Florida, you are golden.
I love Texas, the idea. Texas, geographically, bums me out. I like rain and cooler weather. How is Tennessee, economically-speaking?
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@wrx7m said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@scottalanmiller said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
Texas is really the best market, I think. Very low cost of living, no state income tax, nearly everything is cheaper than other tax free or low tax states, high legal mobility, and more local job opportunities than in most US markets, especially low cost ones. If you can get remote work and do it from Texas or Florida, you are golden.
I love Texas, the idea. Texas, geographically, bums me out. I like rain and cooler weather. How is Tennessee, economically-speaking?
Have you spent time in Dallas? I'm a rain and cooler weather person myself and we get loads of rain in Dallas. And it is not all that hot. Not all that cool, but not all that hot. Don't equate all of Texas with the hell that is Houston.
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Tennessee is not bad economically, but not on par with Texas. Overall a decent option.
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@scottalanmiller said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@wrx7m said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@scottalanmiller said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
Texas is really the best market, I think. Very low cost of living, no state income tax, nearly everything is cheaper than other tax free or low tax states, high legal mobility, and more local job opportunities than in most US markets, especially low cost ones. If you can get remote work and do it from Texas or Florida, you are golden.
I love Texas, the idea. Texas, geographically, bums me out. I like rain and cooler weather. How is Tennessee, economically-speaking?
Have you spent time in Dallas? I'm a rain and cooler weather person myself and we get loads of rain in Dallas. And it is not all that hot. Not all that cool, but not all that hot. Don't equate all of Texas with the hell that is Houston.
I went there once, when I was in jr. high in January and it was snowing.
