Going pay rate for IT person
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Originally Posted by parkerdt,Aug 13 2010, 08:43 PM
I don't mind at all - I work for Perimeter eSecurity, a small ~ 350 employee outfit HQ'd in Milford, Connecticut. We mainly do secured networks for financial industry clients, including reporting necessary for their audits, etc. Our NOC is in Morrisville, near the Airport, and my office is there. That facility houses our Sec Eng, Sec Ops, and Deployment engineering teams as well. I'm the Technical Lead for new deployments.
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Originally Posted by krshultz,Aug 13 2010, 10:21 PM
Us RTP people should get together for lunch sometime.
on another note.. anyone know anywhere hiring. my current job is driving me slightly nuts
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Originally Posted by parkerdt,Aug 14 2010, 07:35 AM
Sometimes, yes. I see what must be your silverstone quite often, another Rio, a Suzuka every few weeks, and occasionally both an NFR and a GPW out on Airport Blvd., mostly.
Karl - we met years ago over lunch at some Italian place on 54/55. Diane got me to come out. Met her thru Jack. Kendra and her husband (can't remember his name) came too. I worked at GSK back then. GSK Main = horrible building!
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Originally Posted by deathsled,Aug 14 2010, 02:28 PM
I was doing end user level tech support out at Cisco for 50k+/year, no certs or anything.
I'm really disappointed to hear what the rest of the market is like....
I'm really disappointed to hear what the rest of the market is like....
Just lost a couple of level 1 engineers with about 2 years experience each to them for almost double what I could pay.
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Originally Posted by parkerdt,Aug 14 2010, 05:21 PM
Hard to beat what Cisco pays...
Just lost a couple of level 1 engineers with about 2 years experience each to them for almost double what I could pay.
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Just lost a couple of level 1 engineers with about 2 years experience each to them for almost double what I could pay.
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Definitely get networking certs, Cisco rules all others.
PC work is a dirt cheap commodity with no upward mobility.
I am trying to get a guy hired for our company in charlotte for $20/hour and that is a steal for us. Our bill rate is $225 minimum.
best part is that as you get more certs ie. CCxA ->CCxP ->CCIE your pay moves with you. the quicker you go, the quicker you accelerate your pay.
CCIEs can easily make $150k and up, but you will have to work your butt off to get there.
Don't work at Cisco, they are slave drivers now. maybe you can get into a development program, but be prepared to move with them. no more stock market millionaires being made over there.
PC work is a dirt cheap commodity with no upward mobility.
I am trying to get a guy hired for our company in charlotte for $20/hour and that is a steal for us. Our bill rate is $225 minimum.
best part is that as you get more certs ie. CCxA ->CCxP ->CCIE your pay moves with you. the quicker you go, the quicker you accelerate your pay.
CCIEs can easily make $150k and up, but you will have to work your butt off to get there.
Don't work at Cisco, they are slave drivers now. maybe you can get into a development program, but be prepared to move with them. no more stock market millionaires being made over there.
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Originally Posted by RStoR,Aug 14 2010, 06:12 PM
Karl - we met years ago over lunch at some Italian place on 54/55. Diane got me to come out. Met her thru Jack. Kendra and her husband (can't remember his name) came too. I worked at GSK back then. GSK Main = horrible building!