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average PC technician salaries?

zCypher

zCypher

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I've been googling for a while, and I even checked out statistics canada - but the site was horribly slow from this system (library terminal). Anyhow, I just wanted to inquire as to what the salaries are like for PC Technicians on average. I had one tech job in the past which paid $7/hr cdn. That amounts to what, something pathetically miniscule as $8k-ish usd per year? Can't really live off that, IMO. Currently I'm working in a comp shop for $8/hr cdn (approx $5/hr usd) which isn't as bad - but what makes the job good is the work enivronment.

All the statistics I'm finding are not showing any comp-related job less than $25k usd/year. That's still many times my salary.. so, what is a decent or average salary .. what do you get for a similar job? I have be up to $9hr in a couple months but that's still dirt, is it not? From a purely financial standpoint (the job itself is great so far).

hell I think even my manager only makes $10-11hr cdn (about $6-7usd/hr), and he practically runs the whole store himself (well not practically - he DOES, cause it's just him and myself and I'm new). $6/hr to run a store on your own?

I'm going to create a poll so I can get at least some sort of statistical data to inform myself. 😛
 
zsouthboy - you sonuvabeetch! You make $28/hour (canadian), you do the same job as me?? Or what do you do, specifically? I'm 19, BTW... and I'm stuck at $8/hour here and that's paying better than the competition! :Q
 
I don't know about the average, but I got my job with no "real" experience and I make $35/hour and I don't pay taxes either (overseas)!

D
 
Originally posted by: zCypher
zsouthboy - you sonuvabeetch! You make $28/hour (canadian), you do the same job as me?? Or what do you do, specifically? I'm 19, BTW... and I'm stuck at $8/hour here and that's paying better than the competition! :Q
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Repair, new systems, etc etc. the general stuff.

you probably live somewhere where MANY people have similar knowledge as you... i happen to live in hell, i mean a small (and not just small, SOUTHERN, so that means rednecks, etc) town... and very few people know anything about computers, even the techy people i know do not compare to me </blowing smoke up own ass> 😛
 
Originally posted by: Ameesh
according to the millionaries on this board if you have your A+ cert then you can easily start at 750K+
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THATS what i've been doing wrong <slaps forehead> I've been getting MSCE instead... 😛

EDIT: MCSE is what i meant, but MSCE is funny too. 😀
 
I know tech's that make as little as 25K, and as high as 75K (per year), and specialist (security/firewalls, exchange, etc) that make even more.

50K per year seems to be the average of the techs I know in this region.


edit: USD
 
Cannot compare CAN to USD at all. When I started working in 2000 I started at $25k CAN as a software developer (admittedly it was low, but only about $5k below average), and now make much more in USD.
 
When I got my first job out of College I started at 38,000/Year as a Temp (About $18/Hour), six months later I was hired on at $45,000/year (Young and naive and I bid too low with my salary requirement)...a few months later I was promoted to $51,800 when they made me a service manager....fiancee got a job in another state just as the econ started to tank, moved with her and was unemployed for a few months...took a temp job at $17/hour as a deskside Tech...still working for the same company as an hourly tech but now make a little over $22/hour after much negotiation....sucks making less than before with higher rent and a crappier apartment but considering most of my friends make low 30s in the same field I don't think I am doing that badly.

This is in Massachusetts.
 
Skoorb - what do you do? I just work at a comp store... i don't do anything terribly difficult. I build systems, repair systems, sell parts and systems, help customers with whatever they need helping... that's pretty much it. Are you telling me people actually get paid good money to do this? To me, 30kcdn and up is considered good money 😛
 
so far more people make around $30/hour cdn to do the job I get paid $8hr to do. something is very wrong with that 😛
 
btw people i'm talking about an actual pc tech job position, not what you charge some person for servicing their system. What do the people working in comp shops get paid over there? you can't seriously be getting 30 bucks an hour to sit around a comp shop 😛 lol
 
Originally posted by: zCypher
btw people i'm talking about an actual pc tech job position, not what you charge some person for servicing their system. What do the people working in comp shops get paid over there? you can't seriously be getting 30 bucks an hour to sit around a comp shop 😛 lol
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think you need to put in bold "Actually and not wish you made"
 
I get $22 USD/Hour to sit here and read ATOT, I work for a contract company, they bid a contract for a financial firm and promised them they would have so many techs on site all the time, a few of their key people left leaving them under their promised amount of techs, instead of hiring someone full time and paying them benefits so they can sit around here and do nothing, they just brought me on even though they know there is not enough work..so even though I make a decent amount of money for not doing much work they are still saving a good deal on me...thus I usually have a whole lot of nothing to do....

however they are creating more work for me, so that should be good as the day just drags when you just surf the net.
 
Originally posted by: bozack
I get $22 USD/Hour to sit here and read ATOT, I work for a contract company, they bid a contract for a financial firm and promised them they would have so many techs on site all the time, a few of their key people left leaving them under their promised amount of techs, instead of hiring someone full time and paying them benefits so they can sit around here and do nothing, they just brought me on even though they know there is not enough work..so even though I make a decent amount of money for not doing much work they are still saving a good deal on me...thus I usually have a whole lot of nothing to do....

however they are creating more work for me, so that should be good as the day just drags when you just surf the net.
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That sounds a bit like my job...lot's of web surfing! Of course I get some other fringe benefits like a place to live for free, no utilities to pay, cheap car insurance, cheap gas, and nice weather year-round.

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if i moved to the U.S. would I be making more than $5-6/hour working at a computer store? Would $15/hour be a stretch?
 
JeffreyLebowski - That's $14cdn compared to $8 - I'd say it's pretty far off 😉 😛

human2k - thanks for the input. however, school and degrees is not everything, and you don't *need* it to make good money. my manager worked for IBM and he doesn't have a college degree or any certs. perfect example.. 😛
 
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