A small support shop I was working at ~6 yrs ago was charging $125/hr, plus travel if applicable (located in Southeastern PA).
Don Guyer Windows Systems Engineer RIM Operations Engineering Distributed - A Team, Tier 2 Enterprise Technology Group Fiserv don.gu...@fiserv.com Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 Fax: 610-233-0404 www.fiserv.com <http://www.fiserv.com/> From: David Lum [mailto:david....@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 5:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Maintenance Fees I'm in the Portland Or metro area and charge $80/hr onsite $55/remote. I'm on the low end as I know some one and two man shops who do the same thing are over $100/hr. I have had all my clients for over 5 years (one of them 10!) and started most of them at $75/hr and only raised onsite rates when gas prices went up a couple years ago. At this point I care more about retention than new clients J Dave From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 1:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Maintenance Fees Curious as to some hourly rates that are expected. I've had a couple small businesses come to me lately that would like me to support their shops... This would be side jobs/off hours. Sam From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 3:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Maintenance Fees Think in terms of x per networking device, y per server and z per desktop -- per month Maybe $25-50 per networking / $40-75 per server / $10-50 per desktop -- for about 10-20 hours of work per month For that kind of environment, I would estimate $400-$600/mo for a moderately stable environment. At least in the metro NYC area. ASB http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Joseph L. Casale <jcas...@activenetwerx.com> wrote: Guys, What are common ranges a small shop can expect to pay a consulting firm to maintain a network with roughly the following: 1. 30 users 2. Exchange 2010 3. 6 total windows servers from file to sql etc 4. 6 Redhat machines in various roles 5. a few procurves 6. A bsd vpn/firewall 7. Some other misc network equipment like printers/card scanners etc... I know it depends on the specifics but I need just what range some folks might expect that to be in. I am stepping out of that duty and the owner (lots of history here) is asking me for some info. Thanks for any insight! jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
