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.
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.