<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I think you’d be better served overall by educating with the following information:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.usenix.org/system/files/lisa/surveys/lisa_2011_salary_survey.pdf" class="">https://www.usenix.org/system/files/lisa/surveys/lisa_2011_salary_survey.pdf</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Whomever you would look to convince should know what we’re paid all over the world and then also locally at home to understand how good they have it in an Atlanta context compared to other places, and also that experience and certs carried plays a part in overall compensation as well.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—jms</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 4, 2015, at 10:55 PM, James Sumners <<a href="mailto:james.sumners@gmail.com" class="">james.sumners@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Sergio Chaves <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:sergio.chaves@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">sergio.chaves@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><a href="http://www.indeed.com/salary/q-Linux-Administrator-l-Atlanta,-GA.html" target="_blank" class="">http://www.indeed.com/salary/q-Linux-Administrator-l-Atlanta,-GA.html</a><br class=""></blockquote></div><br class="">That's too generic. I need a few hard numbers from actual people so that I can show an average pay rate for the job I actually perform.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">Visit <a href="http://open.ga.gov/index.html" class="">http://open.ga.gov/index.html</a> > select "Salaries & Travel Reimbursments" > click the "Agree" button > choose "Person" > choose "University System" > enter my last name. You'll see why I need some real numbers.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">I don't want to leave my current employer. We've had some significant changes in the past 6 months, and I'm optimistic about the future and enjoy what I do. But I cannot continue there with the data you'll find in that search, and I can't wait for FY2016 to start for it to be marginally better (maybe). So I want to give them an immediate chance to get _much_ closer to a correct pay scale, but I need data to show what that is.<br class=""><br clear="all" class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>