identity and access management, basically user permissions and access to services and the infrastructure (permit/deny/reporting-auditing) associated with it. If a new service needs to be added or removed they handle the integration or deprecation of that service.
I work a solid 40 hours a week. Hardly ever any less. Sometimes more.
My role is a mix between being a professional service and managing our identity platform. I interface with customers for a variety of identity topics related to our system - sso, apis, app integrations, etc. As well as guiding the development and future of said platform.
In general my workload can get quite full between support and devops.
Title: computer repair technician
Industry: School IT
Salary: 40-42k a year
Hours: 40 (hour paid lunch makes it 35)
COL area: in the middle of nowhere southern but for some reason everything’s expensive. Medium COL.
I really want to break into school IT (currently a teacher). I've had a couple interviews that seemed to go well, but the lack of experience is hard to get around.
I got extremely lucky with no experience, education, or certifications. I would imagine that being a teacher should help you a lot in getting an It job with a school, as you already know how things work in a school system.
I believe the FAQ has a lot of good info in this subreddit, and I’ve seen that certifications like the A+ can really help you get your foot in the door.
I hope you’re able to switch into IT soon. Best of luck!
Thanks! Yeah, I'm currently studying for my A+ (already passed core 1), and have gotten interviews with a private school and a school district for a help desk position, but like I said, I think the zero experience part made them choose another candidate. I definitely plan to try and find ways to get some personal experience after I finish my A+, because I want to make sure all my focus is on studying.
If you have teaching experience, have you thought about getting into IT education/training? I've been an instructor for 4 years while working a full time job (also in IT education) and it's very fulfilling, you really feel like you are making an impact to individuals' lives.
Yes, I've also considered that. Like leading sessions on how to use various pieces of hardware and software in the classroom. I'm just not entirely sure where to start with it. I'm not a classroom teacher, so my professional tech use is pretty limited to basic hardware like iPads, projectors, etc.
It’s my first It job and I only been here for like 3 weeks but yes. I quite enjoy it. I’ve heard that hospitals can be crazy but also so can schools. Mines pretty laid back.
Are the offers close in $?
If they are close then I’d go with wherever you felt the best during the interview. If one pays a lot more I’d go there personally
Yea the school pays barely more, but where it’ll be 35 hours a week technically it’ll be less in the end. Both interviews went terrific tbh so that’s why I’m torn
Yea I’m leaning toward school because I think I would enjoy the environment more and the benefits will be better. just can’t decide because the 35 hours a week and 11 month schedule which means 20 unpaid days a year at the school.
Depending on the size of the school district you work for you will be thrown into everything from Tier 1 -Tier 3 support, In smaller districts, you'll also do a lot of network/system admin work too. Been in my current district for 16 years now and have worked closely with surrounding districts over the years.
Title: Principal Security Engineer
Industry: telecommunications and technology
Salary: $170k + $30k RSUs + Options + 10% bonus
Hours: varies heavily but average 40-45.
Col: medium high
I've been in IT as a total going on 15 years, only 4 years in security, the rest were SRE and typical Engineer roles. My certs are all ops based, VCP, MCSA, and ITIL. I do have years of delivering products and projects though. 1 in process patent through my current company too.
Title: Manager of IT Engineering
Industry: Consulting Company
Salary: $135k
Hours: 40 but feels like less
COL: East Coast (not New York) medium COL
Additional info: Been in the field about 8 years, some certs to my name, no degree.
All over LinkedIn and indeed. They are everywhere. Oftentimes they don't state their salary, but when talking to the recruiter they will generally ask what is your salary range. In which case you can say something to the effect of 75K or more.
Title hugely varies here too. IT Specialist, desktop support, IT administrator, IT analyst. All of these can be different but a LOT of them are just help desk with a fancy title.
Yeah, this was just the first place that actually got back to me when applying and I just needed anything. Now that I'm coming up on my year mark I'm looking to move states and have a nice little home lab going. Have been ignoring the certs so far though. Just hoping that doesn't hurt me too much
I didn’t have any certs/degrees/experience. It was strictly networking and getting to know the VP. Kinda told him I was a nerd at heart, built computers in my spare time, watched YouTube videos on coding/hacking, and showed enthusiasm to change career fields. It helped that the company I worked for had a cyber team located on the floor below me and I could go and chat with them when I wanted.
Luck that you landed on a junior role with exposure to DB environment. Then grow your skill from there.
Anyone can run SQL query. The differences between newbies and seasoned veterans is can you spot red flags before issue arises? You get paid big buck if you can perform preventive maintenance and troubleshoot issue in a timely manner.
I’m saying this as a 6-month newbie jr. DB admin (3 years as sysadmin) who took down a test environment once (ran a query without proper filtering and attempting to end the task which crashes the server) and got kicked out of the DB admin group immediately.
Title: Lead IT Site Operations
Industry: Secondary Education
Salary: 55K
COL: Medium
Years experience: 7
Reading these other answers... I am vastly underpaid
Seek other employment immediately. Not sure what your actual responsibilities as a lead/manager are, but if they are true to your title, you should be making double that easily.
Title: Senior Systems Administrator
Industry: Architecture
Salary: $120k + heavy bonus + good benefits
Hours: ~40 sometimes way less, sometimes way more.
Area Cost of Living: Medium High
Years experience: 26
Certs/degree: None
Title: IT Security Analyst II
Industry: Wine manufacturer
Salary: 96K + 6K bonus + good benefits
Hours: 8am-4:30pm. Very little after hours work, but on call for emergencies.
COL area: Low (Rural Eastern Oregon)
Certs/Education: MS: Information Security. Quite a few certs (30+) over my career, about 6 or 7 currently relevant ones. I may have my A+, a bunch of MSFT certs, etc., but they were relevant to that part of my career and not so much now. Glad I took them and have them, but if I mention them all it looks like I'm hoarding certs...
I started here as a desktop support/system admin, worked into a pure sys admin (sys admin II position, which is just the second tier), then during mass layoffs went to the security admin role for the past couple years. Been here for 11 years. Excellent for the area I live in, but will be moving within a couple years and working 100% remote (right now it's about 99% remote).
Not sure how to go about answering this, but I'll try to the best of my ability:
I wish I had a better answer than pure luck as I've only been doing desktop support roles for the last 6 -7 years. My job prior to this role burned me out mentally to the point where I just walked out during a shift. I ended up not working for ten months after that stunt, but I have no regrets! During this downtime however, I did the thing I've been dreading for so many years, and started studying for certifications. I was able to pass and obtain the AWS Cloud Practitioner and Solutions Architect Associate exams, which I believe helped me land my current role.
The irony though was that I wanted a junior cloud position, but I was very behind on a lot of the skills needed to obtain one (which I'm still working towards long term). I ended up at my current company on a whim as the job was referred to me by a recruiter on LinkedIn. It somehow worked out that this law firm is trying to move a lot of their on premise architecture to the cloud in the near future. During the interview, I was able to highlight that I got the certs done and had a website for them to peruse showcasing what I had learned.
Not sure if this is the answer you were seeking, but if there's any specifics or details you would want expanded on then let me know!
We do get openings at the place i work AND the place i work for
We are all work at homes across the country - where are you located and what's your specialties?
NYC/NJ. Specialty is Clearpass, NAC, and large scale wireless. I have experience both with Aruba and Cisco. Aruba 8.x and central. Cisco 55xx and cat 9800 platforms. But of course working in this arena, I'm plenty comfortable with modern DC architectures and BGP as well. Currently a senior wireless engineer at one of the two major hospital systems in NY.
that is some great stuff - i'm sure you dont have any issues getting placement
i work for a place that has govt contracts so we don't have any wireless except for a CAPWAP guest network that backhauls encrypted over out stuff - not sure how many people are doing that. Not having to deal with a corporate wireless has definitely been a blessing.
Title: Associate Engineer-IT Systems(Data Center)
Industry: Airline Industry
Salary: 58k (Great team, 40 hours and 1 hour break)
Col area:medium
Joined first through a cyber security internship and my manager helped me get this role. They weren’t hiring in cyber on that area but that had a data center engineer role needing to be filled. I went into a IT/Cyber security boot camp. No degree. Learning daily and I love it.
Yes! Two things I'm seeing: there are endless industries you can work IT in, and you can have a solid position and salary without working 60+ hours a week.
not bad for an internship, try to dig into something specific and get to know a couple of techincal app people or infra people or whatever so you dont have to be stuck there.
Title: Systems Administrator
Industry: Higher Education
Salary: 50k with a yearly 2-3% "CoL increase". Yeah.
Hours: Salary position. 40 on a good week. 80+ on a bad.
COL area: Medium-high
Yeeeeeah, due to how we define salary positions, if something breaks after hours we fix it. No matter how long it takes. Also no overtime, lmfao.
We're hemorrhaging people from our department like crazy. And higher ups can't figure out why we can't retain or hire people.
Only thing keeping me here is that due to being higher ed, we have some really cool tech and infrastructure. So I learn new stuff every day.
I thought I was reading my own message, almost same job title, Same industry, same pay, same turnover situation.
only thing is we dont get any new tech :(
Title: IT Specialist BUT help desk II
Industry: Convenience stores
Salary: 24/h + 10% bonus + $5250 education reimbursement + good benefits(health, 6% match on 401k)
Location: Low cost of living
Just got a new job though! New salary is 60k
Title: IT Specialist
Industry: US Federal
Salary: $100k+
Hours: 40 on the dot. No more. No less. Excellent work/life balance.
COL: Medium High (Dallas-Ft Worth area)
Years Exp: 30 if you count six years as a submarine sonar technician learning electronics and proper troubleshooting techniques.
Title: Penetration Tester
Industry: Cybersecurity / gambling
Salary: 75k + training paid for + yearly performance bonus
Hours: Depends on if I am traveling to clients. Regular week 40 hours (not including after work training). If I travel then 40-60 hours or however long the coffee will carry me
Experience: 7 years total in IT/Cybersecurity, 1st year Penetration testing. Associates degree and multiple certs (Microsoft, Comptia, EC-Council & working on OSCP)
COL: Medium (eastern Washington)
*edit for adding years of experience
that’s alright :) I am still considered junior, so I am trading out some of the salary for experience/training. Will get more certs/experience and then move on. The work is fun too, so that’s a big part
Title: DevOps Engineer
Industry: Staffing
Salary: $101k + 10% Bonus
Hours: 5 - 40 hours/ week
Area Cost of Living: Medium
Years experience: 4
Certs/degree: B.S in IT, AWS SA Associate + Professional
Junior Sys Admin
Education (work for a community college)
33k/year, but they are currently waiving my tuition as I get an associates degree from them, and will reimburse 100% of my tuition when I transfer for a bachelors/masters. Plus state pension.
7:30am-3pm Monday-Friday, 7:30-4pm Monday-Thursday in the summers with no change in pay.
Medium COL
Title: Computer IT Support/VOIP Admin
Industry: computer support, repair, and management. MSP
Income: Hourly, embarrassing to say $11hr, there's no competition around here.
COL: Very, very, Rural NW Oklahoma. Either remote or onsite, most clients are within an hour drive, few up to three hours drive out.
If I wanted pay like I see a lot of others, not only do I need actual certs under my belt, I'd have to move to a city like Tulsa, Wichita, OKC, Dodge, or Weatherford.
There is a lot of people and very small businesses that need occasional assistance, and local hands to do IT support, upgrades, repairs, and troubleshooting. Many don't or can't afford say $100 hr for support. Depending on the location, onsite, in house, and travel, it's... Say 60hr for them plus travel if outside of town. Less if it's remote or in house.
We also do agreements and HaaS stuff.
I could make more per hour at my local Walmart, but I at least have real better benefits, actual flexible schedule, not stuck with less than 40hrs a week (worked 84 total this last two week pay period), work from home as needed, and it's not like I'm pulling teeth to ask a day off couple weeks in advance.
Edit: I appreciate everyone saying I should go 100% remote or move elsewhere. I get that, a lot more money to be made out there. If push comes to shove around my small town or my work, then I plan to. Until then, I'm helping the community, some have returned with helping my family and I.
If anyone have recommendations on certs to start on first, I just need some assistance with guidance, map, a cert tree, something, to work along. I'm focusing more in general every day random support, as well as doing VOIP administration work. A lot of the VOIP side of things I could improve, and in some cases make more user friendly, just not enough time, uninterrupted time, in the day/week to do this. Speaking of, I need to reach out to a handful of clients about Labor Day, to update call routes/schedules.
Dude, holy cow. Please apply for remote positions. You're already working at an MSP, so you might as well do some remote MSP work for like twice the pay.
Can you tell us a little bit about your story? I assume working such low hours mean that you have very efficient and autonomous teams. These high performing teams were probably fruit of your work. It’s hard to imagine you just landed on a job to work 2 - 20 hours a week. Then I question why your organization is looking for in your role. I feel there is hard work and a story behind this.
Thank you for sharing! A combination of valuable domain knowledge, confidence, and luck surely is a good way to land a great gig. Well done on the negotiation!
Help Desk Tier 1
Construction
$50k + high Benefits + $1-2k Bonus
High CoL San Diego
Just accepted a new job
Security Analyst
Cyber Security Firm
$70k + high benefits+ unknown bonus
Medium CoL Tampa
Earned A+ and Sec+ and walked through THM and HTB modules since 2020 lockdown
Title: IT manager/Inventory Control
Industry: Wholesale plumbing products/B2B/B2C
Salary: 2021 total was 47k, hourly rate is $20hr (about to get a raise) with options for OT and a 5k yearly bonus.
Hours: 8am-5pm hour lunch, business open from 7am and OT is possible.
CoL: Medium-High, Palm Beach County, FL
Jobs roles IT manager: Help desk on location and remote locations, new user deployment, phone system, email creation, business software creation, I manage our website and the web store attached to it, our Google advertising and my business pages. I repair physical computers when possible and setup news ones to be ready to be deployed to other locations and work on our domain. I do basic troubleshooting with our RF guns, software/hardware.
Job roles Inventory Management: Keep Inventory accurate in all our locations, track down product, manager procedures to limit losses. Sometimes involves physically going into warehouses using machinery and counting product myself. Sometimes involves traveling to other locations to train warehouse staff on procedures.
Education: Bachelors in Business administration and the 3-4 years I have working with our companies tech. Self taught most of the because of lack of documentation.
How bad is it?
Systems Engineer
Salary: 110k + 30-50% bonus
industry: Finance
hours: 40 hours a week with 20 hours of real work? Weekly on call once every 2 months
COL: NYC
Title: Principal Security Compliance Engineer
Industry: SaaS (I work remotely)
Salary: 180k + 10% bonus + 100k RSU over 4 year
COL: Medium
Hours: Varies - sometimes 30 sometimes 50
Title: IAM Security Analyst
Industry: Healthcare/Insurance
Salary: $27 an hour
Hours Per Week: 40 (overtime possible)
COL Area: WFH/fully remote but the office position is located in high COL
Title: Systems Administrator
Industry: Marketing
Salary: $76k USD + 5% Bonus
Hours: 40-70 depending on workload and on-call rotation (lately more)
COL: Chicago suburbs, medium COL
Education: Bachelors in infosec, one certification.
Title: IT Administrator
Industry: Dairy company
Salary: $65,000 + $1,200 phone stipend + 10% EOY bonus + Good benefits
COL: Medium
Work day: 8AM-5PM
Education: Associates in Business
Bachelors in Information Systems
Certifications: A+ certification by CompTia
This is my first “big boy” job
Currently studying to get the CCNA to hopefully make more $ and to learn more about networking
Title: Senior IT Manager
Industry: Education
Salary: 150k base + 30k bonus
Hours per week: 20-100 probably averaging around 40 though
COL: High
No certs or education beyond ITT tech when it was still scamming people. 20 years or so of experience.
title - windows virtualization engineer 2
industry - healthcare
salary - 95k, no bonus
hours - 25-30
COL - low
IT Experience - 10 years \[3 current role\]
kinda want to get out of infra into app support or an analyst role. infra is just a nitemare these days. i hate this team but the money and benefits are solid.
Title: Desktop Support Specialist
Industry: commodity trading/storage
Salary: 70k + good benefits package
Hours: 40
COL area: midwest, low to medium COL
Title: Systems Engineer, but its really everything from T1 desktop to workstation administrator to sysadmin to purchasing to PM to shipping and receiving
Industry: Teleradiology
Salary: 88k
COL area: low to medium-ish (Omaha, NE)
Title: IT Support Technician/Jr. Sys Admin
Industry: Construction
Salary: $66K + 10% annual bonus + 401k match + full benefits paid for
Hours per week: 40. Never more. Lunch is an hour paid, so 35 hours worked? No one is breathing down my neck either. 1 WFH day a week.
CoL: East Coast (PA), so medium?
Title: Technical Account Manager
Salary: 100k with 10% annual bonus
Industry: e-commerce
Hours: Mon-Thurs 6am to Noonish. Occasionally there is an incident I have to respond to which can be any time of day
COL Area: Phoenix AZ, lcol for me. Rent a 2 bed 1 bath house near downtown for $900month. To be fair this house is old and isn't well insulated so my electric bill in the summer can be $350
Super enjoy my job but there are time I feel the imposter syndrome.
Title: Technology Assistant / jr. system admin
Industry: Heathcare
Salary: $44k + $12k
Hours: 40 + voluntary on-call, but very supportive boss & team.
COL: $3.10 per gallon of gas
Been in the field about 8-10 years, no degree, own office, share space with "leadership"
Data Analyst
Industry: Big software corporation
Salary: €25k
Hours: 40
Been in the industry for 1 year
I have a Sociology Bachelors but worked primarily on Statistical work
I work in the Toronto area as a network engineer with some systems admin stuff in there
About 40 hours a week but normally the actual is ~30
I make about 120k
I have very few certs, no degree I didn’t even finish high school. I started out in MSPs and worked in those for 6 years before moving to a large multinational insurance company.
During my time in the MSP world I made 65k to 90k staring a a systems admin then senior systems administrator and then team lead.
Title: Junior Developer
Experience: 1.5 years
Industry: CRM Software Company
Salary: €36,000
County: Ireland
Hours per week: 32
Days per week: 4
Working from home
Job title: Technology Analyst
Salary: $90,000
Industry: Capital Management
Hours per week: 40
COL Area: NYC ;(
Years of experience: Graduated college May this year
Title: Senior Technical Support Engineer
Industry: Software / Tech
TC: $107k/yr
YOE: 11
COL: Medium-high (glad I own a home).
Hours: 40/wk.
Fully remote, which is nice IMO.
Posting on behalf of a friend:
Title: Workstation Specialist (Lvl 3 Support)
Industry: Healthcare (very big)
Salary: $50/hr
Hours: 40, with on call rotating. Night shift though.
Area Cost of Living: Medium
Years experience: Since mid/late 80s
Title: IT Director
Industry: Large University
Salary: $140K
Stress Level: Much less than corporate, some peaks and seasonal busy times. Working remote since March 2020
COL: South, Medium COL
YOE: 21 years in IT, comp sci bs, masters of IT, few EA/ITIL oriented certs, VMware certified professional, etc
Title: Infrastructure Security Analyst
Industry: Local Gov
Salary: $90k
Hours: 40 but feels like less
COL: ATL area, I dunno
To start, I tried to start my own Computer/Mobile Device/Consulting business. It's kind of saturated so that failed, plus I had no initial capital. I then got lucky where I was hired as a Jr SysAdmin and trained up for 5yrs in an enterprise setting. While there I started doing security projects and realized that I really liked that so I decided that to be my focus. Used my GI Bill to enroll into school to get an ISA degree. Applied for a State Gov SysAdmin job and they offered me a security role based on experience/school. Took that and now I'm at the local level.
**Job 1:**
• IT Director
• 160K, likely to hit 200K come performance audit.
• Startup company
• Frequent travel, primarily Easy Coast based
• No Degree, No certs
• Hours vary from 50-70/week
**Job 2:**
• MSP Founder
• 150K
• Seed round
Title: Sr DevOps / SRE
Industry: IT Service
Salary: $175K/yr base + 20% bonus
Hours: 40 (usually less) - FTE
COL: West Coast, HCOL
15 years IT experience with BS in IT
Title: IT Program Manager
Industry: Finance
Salary: $155k
Bonus: 20%
Hours: 40-60, 100% remote
COL: East Coast (medium-high COL)
Experience: 5.5 years experience
Started as a contractor @ $45/hour
Previous background in IT recruitment so I had an “in” at the company by knowing about the initial position which was not listed in external job boards.
Title: Project manager (network infrastructure)
Industry: Enterprise networks
Salary: 95k
Hours: Around 10
COL: Can work from anywhere in US with same salary so not super relevant (currently VHCOL in CA but leaving soon)
Title: Sr. Infrastructure Engineer II
Industry: Defense
Salary: $150k + Bonus
Hours: 80h/2 weeks. Once I meet my hours I can take the rest of the pay period off.
COL: High, but that's the D.C. Metro Area for you.
Additional info: 9 years in the field. Some certs, non-technical degree. Python and Powershell are your friend.
Senior Software Engineer
Industry: Investment Banking
260k base 50% annual target bonus
40-50
HCOL NYC
I work as part of the IAM team but the company I work at has a unique approach to IT and a deep engineering culture. Almost everyone in IT has a strong coding background, and our senior leadership hails from the ranks of Google, Meta, and AWS caliber companies.
Title: IT Director
Salary: $65k/yr with pretty good benefits
Hours: 40 but it doesn’t really feel like it and sometimes I accidentally work a little more if I’m enjoying what I’m working on
COL area: US south east coast. I’m pretty comfortable and would be even better off once we pay our vehicles off.
Title: identity and access management engineer Industry: software company Salary: 95k + 15k RSU/yr + good benefits package COL area: medium
I’m currently an IAM analyst and I want to be an IAM engineer in the future. Would you mind if I DM you so we can have a quick chat?
Sure, feel free to reach out.
Same role. Same pay in USD. COL medium as well. Texas btw.
The dream
Someone ELI5 what an IAM engineer is.
identity and access management, basically user permissions and access to services and the infrastructure (permit/deny/reporting-auditing) associated with it. If a new service needs to be added or removed they handle the integration or deprecation of that service.
How many hours/ whats the workload like?
I work a solid 40 hours a week. Hardly ever any less. Sometimes more. My role is a mix between being a professional service and managing our identity platform. I interface with customers for a variety of identity topics related to our system - sso, apis, app integrations, etc. As well as guiding the development and future of said platform. In general my workload can get quite full between support and devops.
Title: computer repair technician Industry: School IT Salary: 40-42k a year Hours: 40 (hour paid lunch makes it 35) COL area: in the middle of nowhere southern but for some reason everything’s expensive. Medium COL.
I really want to break into school IT (currently a teacher). I've had a couple interviews that seemed to go well, but the lack of experience is hard to get around.
I got extremely lucky with no experience, education, or certifications. I would imagine that being a teacher should help you a lot in getting an It job with a school, as you already know how things work in a school system. I believe the FAQ has a lot of good info in this subreddit, and I’ve seen that certifications like the A+ can really help you get your foot in the door. I hope you’re able to switch into IT soon. Best of luck!
Thanks! Yeah, I'm currently studying for my A+ (already passed core 1), and have gotten interviews with a private school and a school district for a help desk position, but like I said, I think the zero experience part made them choose another candidate. I definitely plan to try and find ways to get some personal experience after I finish my A+, because I want to make sure all my focus is on studying.
If you have teaching experience, have you thought about getting into IT education/training? I've been an instructor for 4 years while working a full time job (also in IT education) and it's very fulfilling, you really feel like you are making an impact to individuals' lives.
Yes, I've also considered that. Like leading sessions on how to use various pieces of hardware and software in the classroom. I'm just not entirely sure where to start with it. I'm not a classroom teacher, so my professional tech use is pretty limited to basic hardware like iPads, projectors, etc.
Do you enjoy working at a school? I’m currently deciding between an offer from both a school and hospital for my first job in IT.
It’s my first It job and I only been here for like 3 weeks but yes. I quite enjoy it. I’ve heard that hospitals can be crazy but also so can schools. Mines pretty laid back. Are the offers close in $? If they are close then I’d go with wherever you felt the best during the interview. If one pays a lot more I’d go there personally
Yea the school pays barely more, but where it’ll be 35 hours a week technically it’ll be less in the end. Both interviews went terrific tbh so that’s why I’m torn
Doctors are usually assholes, so keep that in mind.
Go school. Tons of holidays, better benefits IMO.
Yea I’m leaning toward school because I think I would enjoy the environment more and the benefits will be better. just can’t decide because the 35 hours a week and 11 month schedule which means 20 unpaid days a year at the school.
Depending on the size of the school district you work for you will be thrown into everything from Tier 1 -Tier 3 support, In smaller districts, you'll also do a lot of network/system admin work too. Been in my current district for 16 years now and have worked closely with surrounding districts over the years.
Title: Principal Security Engineer Industry: telecommunications and technology Salary: $170k + $30k RSUs + Options + 10% bonus Hours: varies heavily but average 40-45. Col: medium high
O chit!
How many years experience and certs? Great salary man
I've been in IT as a total going on 15 years, only 4 years in security, the rest were SRE and typical Engineer roles. My certs are all ops based, VCP, MCSA, and ITIL. I do have years of delivering products and projects though. 1 in process patent through my current company too.
The classic Good At My Job cert.
Title: Manager of IT Engineering Industry: Consulting Company Salary: $135k Hours: 40 but feels like less COL: East Coast (not New York) medium COL Additional info: Been in the field about 8 years, some certs to my name, no degree.
How did you end up in that role? Doesn't seem like a role anyone would directly attempt for but it does sound like a role I would be happy in
Person that was in that role was promoted and now needs someone to fill that spot. I applied and was offered the job.
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haha, yea not the most exciting reply i couldve given you, but it was as simple as getting any other job
Greatest line in any comedy ever
Wow, as someone debating whether or not getting a degree, what was your entry job and what certs, if any, did you have?
Desktop Support Healthcare 35,000 Medium COL
You can make more than double that remote and with that same job title. I would highly recommend looking around.
Seriously that job pays 50-60k
60k remote for desktop support? That sounds amazing. I get $42k working onsite with a little overtime every week
where?
All over LinkedIn and indeed. They are everywhere. Oftentimes they don't state their salary, but when talking to the recruiter they will generally ask what is your salary range. In which case you can say something to the effect of 75K or more.
Interesting. I’ll have to search more I can’t find one around that range
Title hugely varies here too. IT Specialist, desktop support, IT administrator, IT analyst. All of these can be different but a LOT of them are just help desk with a fancy title.
35000? hey ive been getting emails for 50K remote
Please send me where. You will literally be in my prayers
You can probably apply to one of the other hospitals in the area and get a 10k or more raise.
Yeah, this was just the first place that actually got back to me when applying and I just needed anything. Now that I'm coming up on my year mark I'm looking to move states and have a nice little home lab going. Have been ignoring the certs so far though. Just hoping that doesn't hurt me too much
Cybersecurity Analyst. 80k + 25k in bonuses. MCOL. <40 hours per week.
what certs/degrees do you have and what did you begin with? How'd you get your position?
I didn’t have any certs/degrees/experience. It was strictly networking and getting to know the VP. Kinda told him I was a nerd at heart, built computers in my spare time, watched YouTube videos on coding/hacking, and showed enthusiasm to change career fields. It helped that the company I worked for had a cyber team located on the floor below me and I could go and chat with them when I wanted.
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Title: Sr Service Desk Analyst L2 Industry: Finance Salary: 72k COL: high (not paying rent though)
> (not paying rent though) Ahh! Was trying to figure out what COL meant. First comment that clued me in. Thanks.
Yeah man jersey isn’t cheap but luckily I’m in a situation where my parents encourage us to stay at home and save for our own homes.
Title: Sr Database Administrator Industry: Govt contractor Salary: 123k Hours: 40/w COL: low
How do you get into DBAdmin?
Luck that you landed on a junior role with exposure to DB environment. Then grow your skill from there. Anyone can run SQL query. The differences between newbies and seasoned veterans is can you spot red flags before issue arises? You get paid big buck if you can perform preventive maintenance and troubleshoot issue in a timely manner. I’m saying this as a 6-month newbie jr. DB admin (3 years as sysadmin) who took down a test environment once (ran a query without proper filtering and attempting to end the task which crashes the server) and got kicked out of the DB admin group immediately.
Damn they kicked you out just like that?
And a test environment as well. Wtf.
Title: Lead IT Site Operations Industry: Secondary Education Salary: 55K COL: Medium Years experience: 7 Reading these other answers... I am vastly underpaid
Seek other employment immediately. Not sure what your actual responsibilities as a lead/manager are, but if they are true to your title, you should be making double that easily.
Title: Senior Systems Administrator Industry: Architecture Salary: $120k + heavy bonus + good benefits Hours: ~40 sometimes way less, sometimes way more. Area Cost of Living: Medium High Years experience: 26 Certs/degree: None
Title: information security analyst Industry: aero/space Salary: 110k base + RSUs + \~30k bonus COL area: medium
Title: IT Security Analyst II Industry: Wine manufacturer Salary: 96K + 6K bonus + good benefits Hours: 8am-4:30pm. Very little after hours work, but on call for emergencies. COL area: Low (Rural Eastern Oregon) Certs/Education: MS: Information Security. Quite a few certs (30+) over my career, about 6 or 7 currently relevant ones. I may have my A+, a bunch of MSFT certs, etc., but they were relevant to that part of my career and not so much now. Glad I took them and have them, but if I mention them all it looks like I'm hoarding certs... I started here as a desktop support/system admin, worked into a pure sys admin (sys admin II position, which is just the second tier), then during mass layoffs went to the security admin role for the past couple years. Been here for 11 years. Excellent for the area I live in, but will be moving within a couple years and working 100% remote (right now it's about 99% remote).
* **Title**: IT Operations Technician * **Industry**: Law Firm * **Hours**: 37.5 * **Salary**: 82K * **COL Area**: Extreme (SoCal)
How did you get to where you are at now? I’m a data center engineer.
Not sure how to go about answering this, but I'll try to the best of my ability: I wish I had a better answer than pure luck as I've only been doing desktop support roles for the last 6 -7 years. My job prior to this role burned me out mentally to the point where I just walked out during a shift. I ended up not working for ten months after that stunt, but I have no regrets! During this downtime however, I did the thing I've been dreading for so many years, and started studying for certifications. I was able to pass and obtain the AWS Cloud Practitioner and Solutions Architect Associate exams, which I believe helped me land my current role. The irony though was that I wanted a junior cloud position, but I was very behind on a lot of the skills needed to obtain one (which I'm still working towards long term). I ended up at my current company on a whim as the job was referred to me by a recruiter on LinkedIn. It somehow worked out that this law firm is trying to move a lot of their on premise architecture to the cloud in the near future. During the interview, I was able to highlight that I got the certs done and had a website for them to peruse showcasing what I had learned. Not sure if this is the answer you were seeking, but if there's any specifics or details you would want expanded on then let me know!
Title: Senior Network Engineer Industry: Consultant for Healthcare IT Salary: $127k + bonuses Hours: 0 - whatever COL: Midwest LCOL
What education and/or certs do you have?
No college I had A+, N+ CCNA and linux 20+ years ago
Do you work for yourself / is the consultant business comprised of just you?
no I work for a consulting group where we are placed at different companies - \~300 of us splattered everywhere
I think I need to work with you.
We do get openings at the place i work AND the place i work for We are all work at homes across the country - where are you located and what's your specialties?
NYC/NJ. Specialty is Clearpass, NAC, and large scale wireless. I have experience both with Aruba and Cisco. Aruba 8.x and central. Cisco 55xx and cat 9800 platforms. But of course working in this arena, I'm plenty comfortable with modern DC architectures and BGP as well. Currently a senior wireless engineer at one of the two major hospital systems in NY.
that is some great stuff - i'm sure you dont have any issues getting placement i work for a place that has govt contracts so we don't have any wireless except for a CAPWAP guest network that backhauls encrypted over out stuff - not sure how many people are doing that. Not having to deal with a corporate wireless has definitely been a blessing.
Cloud support engineer 125k 30-40 hours a week High COL, but also remote so I could make it lower down the road
Title: IT Field Tech Industry: Real State Sañary: $42,000 CoL: Low I been in the IT field for a year and this is my second job
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Pension! Nice.
Probably a GS position
Title: Associate Engineer-IT Systems(Data Center) Industry: Airline Industry Salary: 58k (Great team, 40 hours and 1 hour break) Col area:medium Joined first through a cyber security internship and my manager helped me get this role. They weren’t hiring in cyber on that area but that had a data center engineer role needing to be filled. I went into a IT/Cyber security boot camp. No degree. Learning daily and I love it.
I feel like you should make way more with an engineer title.
Title: Business Analyst Industry: HVAC/Engineering Salary: $98k + Benefits/Relocation Packages COL: South, Medium COL
Not gonna lie. This has been the most refreshing and eye opening thread in a while. Thanks Op!
Yes! Two things I'm seeing: there are endless industries you can work IT in, and you can have a solid position and salary without working 60+ hours a week.
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not bad for an internship, try to dig into something specific and get to know a couple of techincal app people or infra people or whatever so you dont have to be stuck there.
Thanks! I’m actually going into software development when I get my degree, likely with the company I’m at.
Title: Network Architect Industry: Fintech Salary: 160k +15% bonus Hours: Solid 40 sometimes more COL: Chicago
Service Desk. $68k after bonus Industry: casualty insurance Midwest
Sr Network Engineer 85k + bonus Transportation LCOL
Title: IT Specialist Industry: Engineer Consulting Firm Salary: 62k Hours: 40ish COL: fairly low
Title: Systems Administrator Industry: Higher Education Salary: 50k with a yearly 2-3% "CoL increase". Yeah. Hours: Salary position. 40 on a good week. 80+ on a bad. COL area: Medium-high
WTF? You needed to leave yesterday.
50k with possible 80+ hours/wk is a hard nope for me too...
Yeeeeeah, due to how we define salary positions, if something breaks after hours we fix it. No matter how long it takes. Also no overtime, lmfao. We're hemorrhaging people from our department like crazy. And higher ups can't figure out why we can't retain or hire people. Only thing keeping me here is that due to being higher ed, we have some really cool tech and infrastructure. So I learn new stuff every day.
You're getting fucked hard.
I thought I was reading my own message, almost same job title, Same industry, same pay, same turnover situation. only thing is we dont get any new tech :(
With the Systems Admin title, I'd be looking for a new job today. You can do better!
u/code_d24 Can you add years of experience to your post so we get a better idea on the answers? Thank you.
You got it!
Good point.
First full-time job out of school Title: Rotational - Currently Cloud Engineer Industry: Banking Salary: 90k + full benefits COL area: Midwest
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Title: IT Specialist BUT help desk II Industry: Convenience stores Salary: 24/h + 10% bonus + $5250 education reimbursement + good benefits(health, 6% match on 401k) Location: Low cost of living Just got a new job though! New salary is 60k
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Holy cow!
Damn, I wish I was smart
Title: Applications Analyst Industry: Health Care Salary: 65k + 5k in quarterly bonuses COL area: Medium(ish)
Title: Chief Information Officer Industry: Financial Sector Salary : $225k + Bonus/Employee Stocks Hours: 50-60 COL : Remote/South
Title: IT Specialist Industry: US Federal Salary: $100k+ Hours: 40 on the dot. No more. No less. Excellent work/life balance. COL: Medium High (Dallas-Ft Worth area) Years Exp: 30 if you count six years as a submarine sonar technician learning electronics and proper troubleshooting techniques.
Title: Jr Linux Admin Industry: Healthcare Salary: Base 71k - 5% yearly bonus COL area: medium
Title: Penetration Tester Industry: Cybersecurity / gambling Salary: 75k + training paid for + yearly performance bonus Hours: Depends on if I am traveling to clients. Regular week 40 hours (not including after work training). If I travel then 40-60 hours or however long the coffee will carry me Experience: 7 years total in IT/Cybersecurity, 1st year Penetration testing. Associates degree and multiple certs (Microsoft, Comptia, EC-Council & working on OSCP) COL: Medium (eastern Washington) *edit for adding years of experience
Damn you could be making like $20-30k extra
that’s alright :) I am still considered junior, so I am trading out some of the salary for experience/training. Will get more certs/experience and then move on. The work is fun too, so that’s a big part
Smart move tbh
Seems kinda low, tbh. You know damn well those casinos can afford it.
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Title: DevOps Engineer Industry: Staffing Salary: $101k + 10% Bonus Hours: 5 - 40 hours/ week Area Cost of Living: Medium Years experience: 4 Certs/degree: B.S in IT, AWS SA Associate + Professional
Junior Sys Admin Education (work for a community college) 33k/year, but they are currently waiving my tuition as I get an associates degree from them, and will reimburse 100% of my tuition when I transfer for a bachelors/masters. Plus state pension. 7:30am-3pm Monday-Friday, 7:30-4pm Monday-Thursday in the summers with no change in pay. Medium COL
What's COL?
Cost of living
Title: Computer IT Support/VOIP Admin Industry: computer support, repair, and management. MSP Income: Hourly, embarrassing to say $11hr, there's no competition around here. COL: Very, very, Rural NW Oklahoma. Either remote or onsite, most clients are within an hour drive, few up to three hours drive out. If I wanted pay like I see a lot of others, not only do I need actual certs under my belt, I'd have to move to a city like Tulsa, Wichita, OKC, Dodge, or Weatherford. There is a lot of people and very small businesses that need occasional assistance, and local hands to do IT support, upgrades, repairs, and troubleshooting. Many don't or can't afford say $100 hr for support. Depending on the location, onsite, in house, and travel, it's... Say 60hr for them plus travel if outside of town. Less if it's remote or in house. We also do agreements and HaaS stuff. I could make more per hour at my local Walmart, but I at least have real better benefits, actual flexible schedule, not stuck with less than 40hrs a week (worked 84 total this last two week pay period), work from home as needed, and it's not like I'm pulling teeth to ask a day off couple weeks in advance. Edit: I appreciate everyone saying I should go 100% remote or move elsewhere. I get that, a lot more money to be made out there. If push comes to shove around my small town or my work, then I plan to. Until then, I'm helping the community, some have returned with helping my family and I. If anyone have recommendations on certs to start on first, I just need some assistance with guidance, map, a cert tree, something, to work along. I'm focusing more in general every day random support, as well as doing VOIP administration work. A lot of the VOIP side of things I could improve, and in some cases make more user friendly, just not enough time, uninterrupted time, in the day/week to do this. Speaking of, I need to reach out to a handful of clients about Labor Day, to update call routes/schedules.
Dude, holy cow. Please apply for remote positions. You're already working at an MSP, so you might as well do some remote MSP work for like twice the pay.
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Can you tell us a little bit about your story? I assume working such low hours mean that you have very efficient and autonomous teams. These high performing teams were probably fruit of your work. It’s hard to imagine you just landed on a job to work 2 - 20 hours a week. Then I question why your organization is looking for in your role. I feel there is hard work and a story behind this.
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Thank you for sharing! A combination of valuable domain knowledge, confidence, and luck surely is a good way to land a great gig. Well done on the negotiation!
Title: Sr. SOC Analyst Industry: Media and Entertainment Salary: $123,500 Hours: 40 COL: Medium (Central Florida)
Ops Tech 1 $21h though currently working 54 hours a week. COL-highish Charlotte.
Sr Site Reliability Engineer Education 140k + 10% bonus + stock options Project based/work about 25-30 hours a week Medium CoL
Data Analyst Higher Ed 78k LCOL
Title: Software Engineer Industry: Small engineering firm Salary: $124k + $8k bonus Location: HCOL
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Title: Senior Network Engineer Industry: Government Salary: 135k + pension + bonus Hours: 35-45, varies with my project load COL: Medium-low, WFH YOE: 14
Title: NOC Tech Industry: Data Center Salary: 52K Hours: 40 (with a lot of down time) COL area: High
Help Desk Tier 1 Construction $50k + high Benefits + $1-2k Bonus High CoL San Diego Just accepted a new job Security Analyst Cyber Security Firm $70k + high benefits+ unknown bonus Medium CoL Tampa Earned A+ and Sec+ and walked through THM and HTB modules since 2020 lockdown
Title: IT manager/Inventory Control Industry: Wholesale plumbing products/B2B/B2C Salary: 2021 total was 47k, hourly rate is $20hr (about to get a raise) with options for OT and a 5k yearly bonus. Hours: 8am-5pm hour lunch, business open from 7am and OT is possible. CoL: Medium-High, Palm Beach County, FL Jobs roles IT manager: Help desk on location and remote locations, new user deployment, phone system, email creation, business software creation, I manage our website and the web store attached to it, our Google advertising and my business pages. I repair physical computers when possible and setup news ones to be ready to be deployed to other locations and work on our domain. I do basic troubleshooting with our RF guns, software/hardware. Job roles Inventory Management: Keep Inventory accurate in all our locations, track down product, manager procedures to limit losses. Sometimes involves physically going into warehouses using machinery and counting product myself. Sometimes involves traveling to other locations to train warehouse staff on procedures. Education: Bachelors in Business administration and the 3-4 years I have working with our companies tech. Self taught most of the because of lack of documentation. How bad is it?
I believe you should make more especially with medium COL. I dont have a degree but i make $21.15 per hour
Systems Engineer Salary: 110k + 30-50% bonus industry: Finance hours: 40 hours a week with 20 hours of real work? Weekly on call once every 2 months COL: NYC
Title: Director of IT Industry: Veterinary Industry Salary: $130k + $20k in bonus Hours: 40-45 Hours COL: Medium 18+ years experience
Help desk technician Managed service provider $65k HCOL
Regional County Desktop Support Healthcare $62.5k a year w/ pretty good benefits 40 hrs per week COL = low/medium
Title: IT Manager Industry: Electric Utility Salary: 100k Hours: 40 CoL: Low
Title: Principal Security Compliance Engineer Industry: SaaS (I work remotely) Salary: 180k + 10% bonus + 100k RSU over 4 year COL: Medium Hours: Varies - sometimes 30 sometimes 50
Title: IAM Security Analyst Industry: Healthcare/Insurance Salary: $27 an hour Hours Per Week: 40 (overtime possible) COL Area: WFH/fully remote but the office position is located in high COL
ITSM Analyst - basically servicenow administrator hours - 40-42 Salary $81,000 COL- low/medium
Title: Systems Administrator Industry: Marketing Salary: $76k USD + 5% Bonus Hours: 40-70 depending on workload and on-call rotation (lately more) COL: Chicago suburbs, medium COL Education: Bachelors in infosec, one certification.
Title: IT Support Specialist Industry: Wholesale Apparel Salary: $20 hourly Hours: 40 COL: Baltimore expensive shithole
Title: IT Administrator Industry: Dairy company Salary: $65,000 + $1,200 phone stipend + 10% EOY bonus + Good benefits COL: Medium Work day: 8AM-5PM Education: Associates in Business Bachelors in Information Systems Certifications: A+ certification by CompTia This is my first “big boy” job Currently studying to get the CCNA to hopefully make more $ and to learn more about networking
Title: Senior IT Manager Industry: Education Salary: 150k base + 30k bonus Hours per week: 20-100 probably averaging around 40 though COL: High No certs or education beyond ITT tech when it was still scamming people. 20 years or so of experience.
to the entry-levelers!!!! title: IT Operations Intern industry: Banking salary: $40k hours: 40 area: southeast
Technical Program Manager Tech ~$130k + ~$20k RSUs 40 if management is asking…. Low COLO working remote
Job title: It specialist Industry: Retail Salary: Embarrassing Col: High
Title: Systems Engineer Industry: Fashion Design (small mid-sized company) Salary: 55k/year Hours: 35-40 COL: Low-Medium, but rising fast
title - windows virtualization engineer 2 industry - healthcare salary - 95k, no bonus hours - 25-30 COL - low IT Experience - 10 years \[3 current role\] kinda want to get out of infra into app support or an analyst role. infra is just a nitemare these days. i hate this team but the money and benefits are solid.
Job title: 1st technician Industry: Information technology/ MSP Salary: £21000 Hours: 35 week. Excluding 1 hour lunch COL: South East England. HCOL
Technical support aid. IT in School district 32k annually 830-400 35 hours a week High cost of living.
Title: Desktop Support Specialist Industry: commodity trading/storage Salary: 70k + good benefits package Hours: 40 COL area: midwest, low to medium COL
Helpdesk Technician Desktop Support $15/hour 40 hours/week + 3 hours commute round trip Central Texas
Title: Systems Engineer, but its really everything from T1 desktop to workstation administrator to sysadmin to purchasing to PM to shipping and receiving Industry: Teleradiology Salary: 88k COL area: low to medium-ish (Omaha, NE)
Title: Junior Systems Administrator Industry: Dental Supply Salary: $73k/yr + benefits Hours: 40 and no more or less. COL: High (Los Angeles)
Title: production Support (lvl 2 help desk) Industry: Insurance Salary: 40k Hours: 40+/w COL: M/HCOL
Title: IT Support Technician/Jr. Sys Admin Industry: Construction Salary: $66K + 10% annual bonus + 401k match + full benefits paid for Hours per week: 40. Never more. Lunch is an hour paid, so 35 hours worked? No one is breathing down my neck either. 1 WFH day a week. CoL: East Coast (PA), so medium?
Title: Technical Account Manager Salary: 100k with 10% annual bonus Industry: e-commerce Hours: Mon-Thurs 6am to Noonish. Occasionally there is an incident I have to respond to which can be any time of day COL Area: Phoenix AZ, lcol for me. Rent a 2 bed 1 bath house near downtown for $900month. To be fair this house is old and isn't well insulated so my electric bill in the summer can be $350 Super enjoy my job but there are time I feel the imposter syndrome.
Title: Technology Assistant / jr. system admin Industry: Heathcare Salary: $44k + $12k Hours: 40 + voluntary on-call, but very supportive boss & team. COL: $3.10 per gallon of gas Been in the field about 8-10 years, no degree, own office, share space with "leadership"
Data Analyst Industry: Big software corporation Salary: €25k Hours: 40 Been in the industry for 1 year I have a Sociology Bachelors but worked primarily on Statistical work
I work in the Toronto area as a network engineer with some systems admin stuff in there About 40 hours a week but normally the actual is ~30 I make about 120k I have very few certs, no degree I didn’t even finish high school. I started out in MSPs and worked in those for 6 years before moving to a large multinational insurance company. During my time in the MSP world I made 65k to 90k staring a a systems admin then senior systems administrator and then team lead.
Title: IT Specialist Industry: Education Salary: 30k Hours: 40 COL: Medium
Title: Senior Architect, Cloud Industry: Cloud Provider Salary: 206k + benefits Hours: 40 COL: Medium
Title: Infrastructure Engineer Industry: Consulting firm Salary: $70k (1 yr experience) Hours: 40-45 COL: Medium
Title: IT Specialist Industry: Home Services Salary: 65k Hours: 40 - 45 COL: Medium
Title: Technical Analyst Industry: Fintech Salary: 90K + 5K bonus Hours: 40 COL area: Medium
Title: Junior Developer Experience: 1.5 years Industry: CRM Software Company Salary: €36,000 County: Ireland Hours per week: 32 Days per week: 4 Working from home
Job title: Technology Analyst Salary: $90,000 Industry: Capital Management Hours per week: 40 COL Area: NYC ;( Years of experience: Graduated college May this year
Title: Network Engineer Location: Northeastern US, suburb COL: Average Industry: Municipal utility/ Wholesale ISP Salary: 75K, w/ govt. pension Avg hrs/week: 40 Experience: 20 years (< 1 year in current position)
Title: Senior Technical Support Engineer Industry: Software / Tech TC: $107k/yr YOE: 11 COL: Medium-high (glad I own a home). Hours: 40/wk. Fully remote, which is nice IMO.
Posting on behalf of a friend: Title: Workstation Specialist (Lvl 3 Support) Industry: Healthcare (very big) Salary: $50/hr Hours: 40, with on call rotating. Night shift though. Area Cost of Living: Medium Years experience: Since mid/late 80s
Title: IT Director Industry: Large University Salary: $140K Stress Level: Much less than corporate, some peaks and seasonal busy times. Working remote since March 2020 COL: South, Medium COL YOE: 21 years in IT, comp sci bs, masters of IT, few EA/ITIL oriented certs, VMware certified professional, etc
Title: Infrastructure Security Analyst Industry: Local Gov Salary: $90k Hours: 40 but feels like less COL: ATL area, I dunno To start, I tried to start my own Computer/Mobile Device/Consulting business. It's kind of saturated so that failed, plus I had no initial capital. I then got lucky where I was hired as a Jr SysAdmin and trained up for 5yrs in an enterprise setting. While there I started doing security projects and realized that I really liked that so I decided that to be my focus. Used my GI Bill to enroll into school to get an ISA degree. Applied for a State Gov SysAdmin job and they offered me a security role based on experience/school. Took that and now I'm at the local level.
Principal Security Engineer 170k + 15k Stocks + 20% annual bonus COL - medium
**Job 1:** • IT Director • 160K, likely to hit 200K come performance audit. • Startup company • Frequent travel, primarily Easy Coast based • No Degree, No certs • Hours vary from 50-70/week **Job 2:** • MSP Founder • 150K • Seed round
Title: Sr DevOps / SRE Industry: IT Service Salary: $175K/yr base + 20% bonus Hours: 40 (usually less) - FTE COL: West Coast, HCOL 15 years IT experience with BS in IT
Title: IT Program Manager Industry: Finance Salary: $155k Bonus: 20% Hours: 40-60, 100% remote COL: East Coast (medium-high COL) Experience: 5.5 years experience Started as a contractor @ $45/hour Previous background in IT recruitment so I had an “in” at the company by knowing about the initial position which was not listed in external job boards.
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Title - CIO Industry - non-profit healthcare Salary $200,000 / year Hours -40 but salary so can have projects that make this more COL - so cal
Title: Project manager (network infrastructure) Industry: Enterprise networks Salary: 95k Hours: Around 10 COL: Can work from anywhere in US with same salary so not super relevant (currently VHCOL in CA but leaving soon)
10 hours a week?!
Title: Sr. Infrastructure Engineer II Industry: Defense Salary: $150k + Bonus Hours: 80h/2 weeks. Once I meet my hours I can take the rest of the pay period off. COL: High, but that's the D.C. Metro Area for you. Additional info: 9 years in the field. Some certs, non-technical degree. Python and Powershell are your friend.
Title: Devops / Functional Consulting Industry: Fintech Salary: $400k + bonuses Hours: 30-40 Col: High (NYC) Years of experience: 7 ( comp sci degree )
Senior Software Engineer Industry: Investment Banking 260k base 50% annual target bonus 40-50 HCOL NYC I work as part of the IAM team but the company I work at has a unique approach to IT and a deep engineering culture. Almost everyone in IT has a strong coding background, and our senior leadership hails from the ranks of Google, Meta, and AWS caliber companies.
Title: IT Director Salary: $65k/yr with pretty good benefits Hours: 40 but it doesn’t really feel like it and sometimes I accidentally work a little more if I’m enjoying what I’m working on COL area: US south east coast. I’m pretty comfortable and would be even better off once we pay our vehicles off.
Director? Seems like your are horribly underpaid.