How much are Techs worth?

[Raven]

How much are Techs worth? Are we getting paid enough for the knowledge we know?? Personally I am getting paid 60k per year, and I think I am underpaid for what I do.

[Wayward Clam]

Gee, I wish I could get underpaid like that! :rolleyes:

[Darren Wilson]

Ditto.

[Raven]

Originally posted by Wayward Clam:
Gee, I wish I could get underpaid like that! :rolleyes:

Well going rate for what I do is somewhere in the 70k range...

[Wayward Clam]

What do you do, exactly?

[Raven]

Originally posted by Wayward Clam:
What do you do, exactly?

I am a Remedy Developer.
Remedy (http://www.remedy.com)

Basically I programmer.

[Outcoded]

"Not as much as you're worth, but just enough to keep you coming back for more. It's like any job" - Malcolm in the Middle

[Wayward Clam]

Well, friend of mine just landed a peach of a job for $64K plus stock options, but that's Canadian dollars. You don't specify where you're from so it's hard to compare (That's like $40K US.) He's a programmer so you're either in a similar boat to him or way ahead.

I'm a lowly bench tech, so $60K would be paradise right now... *sigh*

[Raven]

Originally posted by Wayward Clam:
Well, friend of mine just landed a peach of a job for $64K plus stock options, but that's Canadian dollars. You don't specify where you're from so it's hard to compare (That's like $40K US.) He's a programmer so you're either in a similar boat to him or way ahead.

I'm a lowly bench tech, so $60K would be paradise right now... *sigh*

I am from Indianapolis, Indiana

[unikey]

Hi all I'm in the UK doing 3rd support on £50K (about $75K) so no complaints here and the jobs great as well
If your looking to make serious money go in for sybase developement at $300K a year

Simon

[snoodle69]

I fly ata . com huh? I guess instead of having maintenance crews they pay their IS guys (or programmer guys). J/K!

I actually feel over paid. I am a Sr Systems Specialist and I am a busy guy, so I guess I am getting the going rate. I guess it is because this is my first "real" job that I feel this way. I went from "retail tech" to this...

[PuterGeekGirl]

Originally posted by Wayward Clam:
I'm a lowly bench tech, so $60K would be paradise right now... *sigh*[/B]

Amen Clam!!! Only a DREAM for low life tech scum such as us I guess....but, I guess we could look at Windrivers as a job "perk"?

:D

[Wayward Clam]

You're right, PuterGeekGirl, this has become one of the few ways of making getting through my day a cheerful experience.

But I wish I could trade in a perk or two for some good solid $$.

Oh well... until then... this Clam is climbing the mountain! Look out all ye gods! Neptune's Agent is coming for you! :D

[bfrau]

I don't really know if I'm underpaid or not. I make decent money, not near 60K though, but I'm salaried and I work 50 to 60 hours per week. I'm not only a network administrator, I'm a Vignette developer as well. Vignette (http://www.vignette.com)

[KoWind7]

Thats it...I'm now offically starting the CTWU (Computer Technician Workers Union)!! From now on, we make the same as anybody on the line at GM!!!

I have several uncles and cousins working at the Lake Orion Assembly Plant, and the lowest any of them make is $23 an hour.

I'm willing to bet that any of us works harder, keeps more people happy, and keeps more businesses alive than ANYBODY at GM.

We hearby demand better pay!

[sykophreak]

I work in the little town of Russellville, Arkansas, and get a measly $7.00 an hour as a bench tech. I started out at $6 in December 1998, and got the raise to $7 as a wedding gift five months later. I've been stuck there ever since. I've got around 4-5 years of experience in desktop support, bench work, and networking. My boss claims that business is too slow to give me a raise, or any other kind of benefits. I have no certs, just experience. The office manager assures me that she called around to the other computer stores in town, and that they are paying their techs the same. I still think I'm getting ripped off.

Do you think I'm worth more than this with the experience I have? I'm to the point now that I'm looking for a job where I can actually get paid more than a secretary doing temp work. *gasp* I love what I do, so I don't want to go work at one of the numerous chicken plants in the area. (Oh Joy!)

Oh well... Thanks for letting me rant!

[AlienDyne]

I'm underpaid too. Although I love my job I have to quit my current one really soon because of this issue mostly.

[d0cman]

$60G's???

Wow ... been with my company for over 2 years. only making $36G's Cdn.

Course I just work a helpdesk. ;)

[grosas9]

First I looked around, were all making std. joe blow salary for the everyday tech (position was concidered)

second, ICWU International Computer Workers Union, lets unionize. I call shotty on the president of the Silicone Island and Tech Triangle (NYC, LI, and the binghamton/ ithica area of upstate NY)i got contacts in IBEW local 3 if anyone is really interested.

[chip35]

I was working as a bench and field tech. Also ended up doing network admin for multiple small business' in the area. We got $90 per hour for in field networking work. I got 10 with no benefits (except parts at cost, I was able to do better in quality and price at the shows). We were the best in the business (that's why we had to raise the rates to $90 or be totally swamped). I trained two people who then left for greener pastures so I got disgusted and left myself to go it alone.

[gaff2]

I work for an environmental services company as a network admin, pc & printer maintenance, telephone system admin, user training & hand-holding & anything else they decide must be mine because it either plugs into a 110 outlet or uses batteries for 35K a year salaried. I just put in my resignation & am going to live off my 401K for about six months & accumulate any ceritfication I can. Then I am going to maket the heck out of myself to at least double my current salary.

[WesFlash]

I sit in a cubicle, taking phone calls from Puerto Rico to Hawaii helping people fix thier computers AND printers for a national corporation and I only make 30K/yr. But then I saccraficed a 65k/yr job to move to where there is family and so my wife could start her career too. Now we both make over 65K/yr with her working in the legal profession.

[Pyroate]

The places I've been techs don't get paid what there worth for 2 main reasons.
1.Management or HR don't really understand and think of techs as custodial or small electronic repaire personel.
2.Too many paper techs have burned them before. :confused:

[WebHead]

You're getting paid 60K to be a PC technician? I guess it depends though on if the company you work for is willing to spend the money for good quality work, and they trust you to be their guy to do that. In that case, then I hope you're living up to their expectations.

[Sowulo]

I pay my assistant $42.50 per hour. (half the billable time)

[Wasaw]

$30k and loving it cause its a whole lot better than drywall that i was slaving away at all last, hot, miserable summer long. :D

[Triumph]

I make almost 40k which in the Boston area in most of the salary surveys, is from 34k to 42k per year for a tech which puts me over midway. I am sure there are techs getting paid 60k but they also have MSCE , CNA etc and also perform the functions of a sysadmin in addition to being a tech. I just fix PC's and create stuff like a bootdisk that automatically finds the NIC and chooses the proper driver.

[jimtcurry]

Iwork as a retail store pc tech, fix,build, repair,upgrade,network. You name it i do it (except mcintosh!)
I make about 25k yr. salary and have health ins paid for.
I wish i was making more but thats my decision to stay.

[HeroOfBetrayal]

Raven, You work for ATA My brother-in-law works there maybe you know him He's Jeremy.

[Snommis69]

Originally posted by Raven:
How much are Techs worth?

A warm Diet Coke and half a bag of stale Doritos

:D :D :D

[sdrawkcab]

Originally posted by Raven:
I am from Indianapolis, Indiana

Me, too. Specialty programmers (not your regular C++/VB) get about 2X what we techs get here, and I make ~$35K. On the downside, I haven't seen very many listings for COBOL, FORTRAN, etc lately, they kind of peaked around the Y2K stuff.

[JasonB]

Raven
where are you at in Indy. I am in Indy too

[Twisted_Mister]

I guess it is a regional thing - Raven gets 60k in Indianapolis, I make a little over 60K with overtime and call ins (I get paid for 6 hours to reset a switch after hours!)in Lafayette, Indiana. I too feel underpaid for what I do and the equipment I keep running... ...guess it's all a state ofmind <IMG SRC="smilies/wink.gif" border="0">

[Blue Falcon]

Well, I make near $36K per year base with incredible benefits. I'm hourly, so I get overtime. So, for Iowa, I would say anything over $30K and you're doing pretty well.

Now of course, that isn't including all the debt that I have... <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">

[BigIkI]

Shhhhs, 65k a year and thats low. If I had that kind of money, I would have got my ferrari and god knows what else I would had.

I'm a computer technician, and the pay is not all that, the company relies that there is potential money to be earned.

But I'm just doing part-time, soon as I finished my Computing degree, its bye bye to them.

Although they want me to stay, bah laterz to them. (the one and only BigIkI)

[opiate]

Most of the tech I know make around 35K to 45K. That's enough to make a good living. Here in the Mid-West the cost of living is low. 11% below CA.

[opiate]

Since being a database VB & ASP programmer for about 2 years now, we make anywhere from 60K to 120K. A buddy of mine has been a programmer at the same company for 15 years and he make 94K.

[Virgo77]

I guess i'm slightly underpaid... I'm a 2nd and 3rd line support, with Sys admin as an extra role, basically sold out as a contractor in the Southeast, but full time employed by my company. 20k seems a little low to me.. 3.5 years experience, some qualifications, and a whole lot of eagerness.
Still.... at 22 yrs old, I guess £20k aint bad. £25 is the average round here.

[Schui]

the last entry by virgo was really from me, Schui... it's just that virgo77 was on my pc last, and hadn't logged out....

oops


sorry

[Triumph]

I don't rate myself by what I make. I like the the job and people and I make a decent wage. There are thost who make more and I will make more too but I won't work 60 hours and be on salary doing it. I get paid hourly, no overtime and my weekends are free. I am also single. What more can I ask? I used to work 12-14 hours a day and get paid hourly and I had no life and by the time the IRS was done, the overtime wasn't worth it.

[Sandman72]

Im in the detroit area and I am at low to mid 40's for level 2/3 support. I think I am underpaid. Then again I cant think of any job I have had where I didnt think I was underpaid.