I don't know if anyone can really give you a truth in that, other than someone who has collected a truely impartial survey. Even a CCIE, like myself, cannot tell you the "average", because all I know, is maybe what I have been able to make, and colleagues of mine.
I offer my opinion however. In a straight salary job, you should be able to make $70-100k as a CCIE. In a pre-sales/post-sales role, where you acutally can bring yourself to do pushy sales types stuff and bring in numbers, and quotas and all that stuff, you can probably do $20-$30k better if your good at that. Many CCIE's I know have alot going on, I know I do. Authoring, Technical Editing, consulting, teaching, all in addition to having a full time salaried job. I even own my own Cisco Premier Partner, which has its own staff that works it full time. With all this "work" going on, I can say that I am making alot of money. But I also can say that I am working a hell of alot more than I would like to, so I throttle back alot at times, to try and slow things down. I work out of Shreveport Louisiana, USA, but that really doesn't matter because just about everything I do is outside of the state. My full time job, is Senior Engineer for a large ISP here in North Louisiana. As for straight salary pay, I am paid well for this part of the United States. The job is fun and exciting, but has alot of other duties as well (Linux administration, perl programming, etc). I enjoy working with equipment. I enjoy mostly networking and less administration. If your a CCIE getting very involved like many including myself do (authoring, editing, consulting, teaching, etc) then you can have all sorts of revenue streams. It comes down to the individule though, not the title. I look back and I was *everything* (except editing) before I was a CCIE, but now maybe I get a little more notoriety. The pay for all IT jobs is down right now, the market is in a slump, but CCIE's will always be at the top of that slump :) Brian On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Patrick Bass wrote: > Which part of the world? > > ""datek44 lee"" wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Hi All: > > > > Just wondering... > > What's the average salary for CCIE in this market ? > > > > > > thank you very much... > > > > I am finishing my CCNP, and very interest in CCIE cert. I'm buying / selling used CISCO gear!! email me for a quote Brian Feeny, CCIE #8036 Netjam, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netjam.net VISA/MC/AMEX/COD phone: 318-212-0245 30 day warranty fax: 318-212-0246 Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=42628&t=42166 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
