What is a good Salary for a DBA with 5 years experience

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What is a good Salary for a DBA with 5 years experience

Abhishek Chaturvedi

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March 29, 2012 at 9:04 pm

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Hi was recently offered a job for a SQL Server DBA position with a base salary of $80K in the Philly area. Do you think this is a good salary? I would really appreciate and expert comments on this.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004362 More actions · Answer 1

Heh... if you're currently making $70K, then probably. If you're a good solid DBA that can mentor Developers and do some pretty serious performance tuning, then probably not. "It Depends". 🙂

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 2

the salary really depends like Jeff said

Most of that depends on the type of DBA that you are and if you are willing to accept that salary.

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Abhishek Chaturvedi SSC Eights! Points: 970 More actions · Answer 3

Thanks for the reply. I have not been in the market for a couple of years now and I wasn't sure of the trends in the field. Also, I wanted to get some clarity before I do some negotiation. What in your opinion would be the market average.

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 4

check this

http://swz.salary.com/SalaryWizard/Database-Administrator-Salary-Details-Philadelphia-PA.aspx

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Abhishek Chaturvedi SSC Eights! Points: 970 More actions · Answer 5

Thank you very much Jason. That is good data to get me started.

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 6

You are welcome.

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