On 8/16/07, Steven Alligood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) This is a salary chart for sys admin, not senior sys admin.
Not knowing the true nature of the company, the kind of sysadmin staff they have, etc, I selected sys admin purposefully, as 5yrs experience is generically considered "Mid Level". > > 2) Quite frankly, if you are only paying the 50th percentile for your > sys admin, senior admin, etc, then they are either intentionally under > qualified for your position and you hope they will grow into it, or you > are deluding yourself that a great admin will work for you at 50th > percentile pay, and you then end up with the guy that is under qualified > and you just don't know it. > > -Steve True, and I completely agree that paying "average" is not how you find superstars. And, while five yrs proven, hard-hitting sysadmin experience (plus the intangibles I mentioned, as well) should qualify you for the higher percentages... but then again, it wouldn't be called "50th percentile", if it wasn't the most-common salary range for that job and those tasks, now would it?? /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
