Good point, I was under the assumption there that if you've been a
sysadmin for 5 years you've done something besides linux (especially
considering it was almost unheard of to have on a server in a business
environment 5 years ago compared to today).

But yeah, 2 years exp, $60 is rather high, but then 5 years that might
actually be low (I know a couple that make over 60 and they are both 4-6
years exp as sysadmins).

Doug


On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 16:15, Scott Dier wrote:
> doug wrote:
> > As far as the salary goes, check out www.salary.com. But I imagine that
> > ~$60k/year is about right (I could be wrong, I'm not a linux sysadmin).
> 
> I think its a little high.  You better have more than just linux 
> administration under your belt in this economy to make that much. 
> Networking or Solaris experience or something, or lots of experience 
> with storage solutions, not just a 'Hi! I've been working on a small 
> network of machines for 5 years! Let me play with that 10TB fibrechannel 
> array!"; etc.. Systems administration is much too large to just smack a 
> value on a vague description.  I bet many of us could give you a better 
> ballpark with a better description.