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I'm jumping in on this thread late and have not read the beginnings of it but...<BR>
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Back in 2000 (during the "boom") I was making $55K w/Cox Radio Interactive as the Network Design Manager. By 2002 I was an on-site engineer installing MS Terminal Servers and making $36K (but that was all I could find back then). <BR>
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My last gig was with XM Satellite Radio and I left there making an average of $74K as a Broadcast Applications & Systems Technician (basically a systems engineer) where we supported Mac/MS & Redhat. Now I'm having a hard-time finding anything that comes close to what I was making in Washington DC just last year. But the search continues...<BR>
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Ah the joys of living in a depression era! <BR>
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<B>Subject</B>: Re: [ale] interesting salary data posted by Red Hat<BR>
<B>Date</B>: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:01:45 -0500<BR>
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Must have been phone support for windows home users. <BR>
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When I was first tier HPUX/Solaris support at HP in 2001 we got around $28/hr (which was _really_ good for the several bozos in the team who didn't know how to change a password much less build and mount a raid array). Night shift got a bit more. That sucked for first shift who had to clean up after 3rd shift screw-ups.<BR>
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On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Lightner, Jeff <<A HREF="mailto:jlightner@water.com">jlightner@water.com</A>> wrote:<BR>
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I got that $12/hr figure from a head hunter back in 2002 who was asking<BR>
me to apply for a night job doing phone support for HP. When I replied<BR>
that he couldn't get anyone good for even twice that for a day job he<BR>
responded that he does get people all the time. To me that explained<BR>
why HP phone support first level was so clueless at the time. I'm sure<BR>
by now they've raised it to $12.25 or so...
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> 90k/year in the US?<BR>
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> I'm starting to think $12/hour and free coffee isn't enough any<BR>
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Now we know why Jeff is so grumpy! :)<BR>
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passed that a long time ago...<BR>
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