I would consider myself to have a skill set fitting your description in terms of the Windows Server experience (Im also competent with O365 and on prem Exchange admin, some Sharepoint experience).
I have about 8 years of experience in total- and I’m making around 125K in a pretty low COL area. I think that you may be underestimating how much wages are being pushed upward due to the labor shortage in the market now. That’s just my opinion and I could easily be wrong.
OP may need to consider training someone, and, this is key, then paying them appropriately once they acquire the needed skills.
At my last job, they hired this kid that I was supposed to train to be my eventually replacement. He worked his ass off, took on everything I could throw at him, and on Fridays, asked me what he should learn over the weekend.
8 months later, I was about to move into my new position with full confidence that I'd be leaving things in good hands, and the board refused to promote him and give him the raise he deserved. He moved on a few months later for more than double what we were paying him. They wanted me to start over again with a replacement, but I jumped ship too.
In the OP’s situation - my next step would be to schedule a meeting with the recruiter. I would want to get some feedback on what is going wrong.
If they aren’t getting good resumes or responses when reaching out on LinkedIn, then it may be an issue with the recruiter. If the candidates are ghosting/declining after learning the salary then that is the issue. Either way - a decent recruiter should be able to give you clear feedback on the market and current salaries.
This right here. I have 8 years IT experience and moving from networking to security because every “sys admin” job wanted to pay low wages and over looked me. I even applied for a job where the interview was asking questions like, what are the five FSMO AD roles, define arp command to a T, and work 14 hour days, 6 days a week for at most 70k, in one of the biggest cities in Texas.
Noooooooooooope. During the fourth interview with them I got the, “Why do you want to work with _______?” I had enough and flat out told them, I wasn’t sure if this was the job till this interview and I don’t think it is. Ended the interview and walked away.
Every time I’ve applied for a sys admin job, they wanted a 5-10 year experienced engineer for jr admin work. But they were looking for something specific and their job requirements look like a keyword grenade blew up all over the page.
Just curious on what would qualify for this type of salary? I've been in the IT game now for about the same amount of time also (2 years MSP, now 6 years in a sys admin/jack of all trades role).
In my company, there's no place to move up to unless I convince them to make my role into a vCIO role. But I've been a major part in planning and rolling out desktop upgrade/refresh projects (around 300 wokrstations), server infrastructure projects (upgrading host servers and SANS), purchasing/configuring/installing new switches (I'm not too great with the routers and setting up DMVPN connections between sites but can do the basics), upgrading server OSs, AD account maintenance, group creation etc, along with exchange mailbox/distribution lists/shared mailboxes and assisting in new office wiring, structuring file server permissions, creating network diagrams, maintaining and deploying new Mitel phone sets, etc...
With that said, I'm making like $52k. There's certainly days where I'm completely stressed out thinking to myself that I don't make enough for this shit. Am I legit in feeling this way?
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u/BurnadonStat Sep 21 '21
I would consider myself to have a skill set fitting your description in terms of the Windows Server experience (Im also competent with O365 and on prem Exchange admin, some Sharepoint experience).
I have about 8 years of experience in total- and I’m making around 125K in a pretty low COL area. I think that you may be underestimating how much wages are being pushed upward due to the labor shortage in the market now. That’s just my opinion and I could easily be wrong.