The Cloud is good for your career

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The Cloud is good for your career

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February 29, 2012 at 12:15 am

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Eric M Russell SSC Guru Points: 125561 More actions · Answer 1

I ran across a piece that surveyed some salaries and it shows that people working with cloud platforms are commanding higher salaries, even when the underlying technologies are the same. It seems crazy, but that's the world we live in. Perceptions drive a lot of things in the world, especially the ones that don't seem to make sense.

Assuming we take salary polls from Dice.com at face value, can this be explained by the assertion that IT departments can afford to pay their developers and BI staff higher salaries, once they eliminate a redundant DBA and the infrastructure guy. 🙂

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TravisDBA SSCoach Points: 15780 More actions · Answer 2

Eric M Russell (2/29/2012)
I ran across a piece that surveyed some salaries and it shows that people working with cloud platforms are commanding higher salaries, even when the underlying technologies are the same. It seems crazy, but that's the world we live in. Perceptions drive a lot of things in the world, especially the ones that don't seem to make sense.
Assuming we take salary polls from Dice.com at face value, can this be explained by the assertion that IT departments can afford to pay their developers and BI staff higher salaries, once they eliminate a redundant DBA and the infrastructure guy. 🙂

Maybe, wouldn't be the first time I have seen stuff like this done.:-D

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mtillman-921105 SSCertifiable Points: 7156 More actions · Answer 3

I'm shocked that there's not more discussion about this one.

One reason that the pay may be higher for folks with (I started to say, their head in the clouds) jobs working in the cloud is that it is cutting edge. But what about tomorrow? Will that still be true 5 or 10 years from now? I doubt it. The spike may be temporary.

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736270 More actions · Answer 4

I think the spike is temporary, and as I mentioned, it's about perceptions. Right now the cloud gets a lot of press, which means to managers, it seems "hot", so they're willing to pay more. Even if they don't get more.