On Tue, May 24, 2011, Del wrote: > >My experience would put that salary at a high level helpdesk person, with > >what they are asking more towards the 80-100K range. > >Or am I being somewhat ambitious with my views? > > No, not ambitious. I had the job pushed at a few people I know by the > recruitment agent late last week. They want a degree qualified Linux Admin > with extensive development experience as well as able to be a MySQL DBA. > When I found out the salary on offer my response was "you are joking, > right?".
+1. The above is basically why I stopped hunting for thos kinds of contracts outside of very narrow markets (eg financial contracts); most (local) places seeking all of the above expect(ed) to pay the equivalent of $60k - $65k pa for it. Adrian -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html