Mark R. Lindsey wrote: > The US DOE reports that electrical prices vary a lot, but if we look > in the mid-atlantic region of the US, it's $0.1299 / kWh for > commercial power. [2]
How would that vary if you compared prices in California? > The average salary for a Systems Administrator is $69205 for 2008 [3]. > I don't have a good source, but I'd guess that cost of employment > overhead is around 50% (including benefits, management, vacation, > office workspace, etc.); under that assumption, each "average" system > admin costs $103808 / year to employ. My understanding is that the fully loaded cost of regular employees (of any type) is at least 3x their salary in low-overhead organizations, and 5x to 10x in high overhead organizations. I'm not sure how that works out with employees that get most of their income through incentive compensation or stock options, but I don't think that a sysadmin would tend to fall in those categories with most employers. Moreover, cost of personnel also varies highly by region. So, not only should you compare power cost but also personnel cost, on a per-region basis. > If you have <91 servers per employee, then your employees are costing > more than the electricity (if all these assumptions / guesses are > right). That is an interesting metric, however. -- Brad Knowles <[email protected]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
