Typically a desktop support position in the Minneapolis are starts at about 40 and moves up from there.
Where is this job posted?
Where is this job posted?
They have 2.5 years just to decide if they want to keep you?
"So it's been 10 years that you've been with us. Unfortunately, we've decided we will not need your services after all!"
pontifex
Lifer
- Dec 5, 2000
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not all of us drive porsches and lamborhinid and have to support super model girlfriends...
SKORPI0
Lifer
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Looks like this job posting word for word, by an employement agency.
http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Jobs/JobDetails.aspx?job_did=J8B1YZ5Y16XP2PC0KB6
EMPshockwave82
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I lived off of 36k a year with 1080 / month in rent.
Amazing what you can do when you're good with money and have no debt.
Svnla
Lifer
- Nov 10, 2003
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Humm, the salary of the job is starting @ 30K and up, NOT exact 30K.
Another thing, median salary for a US family is about 50K/year. That includes a husband, a wife, a kid or two. All that for 50K and people still able to live.
I made less than that when I was fresh out of college (years ago) and I was able to live normally.
EMPshockwave82
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And we wonder why we outsource so many jobs to India...
People are unwilling to take decent, above average wage jobs that require about a years worth of post high school training to learn the basics of.
Not really, it's a temp position that can only last 2.5 years. At that point they have to decided if the extra position is required to continue doing business or if they think they will be able to get by with 1 less IT guy around. Apparently a year ago they let the last guy go, 3 months later they started looking for another temp guy. Between them being VERY slow and not having much luck with a few other guys I guess this position has been open for the majority of this last year.
There are a few good things about the job, first off the benefits are great. Secondly it's considered a student position, which means I get to finish my BS and they 'have' to work around my school schedule as long as I'm able to work as much as they decide they need me there.
I figure worst case, I'll get most of my BS done and get paid decent. actually it's very good for a college student around here. And it's some industry related experience I can put on my resume for later rather than piss ant nothing jobs that I've had in the past that have nothing to do with IT.
SacrosanctFiend
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Haha, you really like to inflate your numbers. Try looking at the recent Watson Wyatt survey and reassess your claim.
SacrosanctFiend
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I can't give you Watson Wyatt, as their surveys are paid. However, here is a link to BLS statistics.
Entry-level IT positions will always suffer from too little pay. Why bother paying them higher and fairer wages when San Zhang from China or Apu Singh from India will do it at dirt-cheap wages?
IndyColtsFan
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Probably a little low, but the job isn't requiring expert level knowledge of anything so depending on the benefit package, it might be fair. They ask for an A+ or Network+ and nothing really above that, and that tells you the job is probably fairly basic.
IndyColtsFan
Lifer
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There is no way that job is a $60K/$70K job. You're in Louisville/Lexington, right? I am in Indy (fairly comparable cost of living) and a job with that description might fetch, at most, $40K and even at that would probably require some defined years of experience and probably a degree.
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shens to the max. prob around 35-45k here at NYC, more on wall street but won't be more than 60 with bonus included and they will want a college degree. but u don't even need a college degree to do that job, even high schools are offering CCNA class these days.
ausms info says he lives in chicago.
good luck living in chicago on 30k a year.
10%+ sales tax.
gas rarely goes under 3 bucks a gallon.
rent on a 1 room POS is a grand a month.
I do almost everything on that list, and will make 50K with my overtime(which makes up 10K of it) this year. And I live in a place that costs 33-50% less than chicago.
I certainly wouldnt dream of taking a paycut to go do it there.of course, I also worked about a month+ of extra hours to get my OT pay.
I would hope 30K is the starting for someone thats knows a few of those things.
agood working knowledge of server and cisco stuff should be worth more than 30K
you can make more than that shoveling assphalt 8 months out of the year and sitting on your ass the rest of it.
Freejack2
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Sounds also like this person would be doing all the support.
Which means they're always on call dealing with things like the server going down at 1am and it taking until 6am to get it up and running, going home and getting a call at 8am because the sales guy's laptop got infected with a virus from downloading porn.
Add in being on call 24/7 and suddenly 30k seems less and less.
Which means they're always on call dealing with things like the server going down at 1am and it taking until 6am to get it up and running, going home and getting a call at 8am because the sales guy's laptop got infected with a virus from downloading porn.
Add in being on call 24/7 and suddenly 30k seems less and less.
sorry to break it to u but you're working in the wrong places in nyc.
mid level help desk can pull $80-90k in financial firms.
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