Re: What is the average salary for Postgresql DBA

Thanks buddy. You are quite right. I may work in the system administrator
team as a Database Specialist where primary responsibility may be database
tuning, replication and backup policy defining etc.

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:42 PM, John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> wrote:

> On 05/19/11 12:30 AM, Rob Wultsch wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:52 PM, AI Rumman<rummandba(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey guys,
>>>
>>> If I get H1B visa as Postgresql DBA, then what may I expect to get as my
>>> salary?
>>> Does anyone have idea on this?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> This topic never gets many replies. I will reply because I am not
>> really part of the community.
>>
>> It depends massively on the company, where you live and your skill
>> level. For a normal area (not San Francisco, etc) I think the
>> following is sane:
>>
>> Jr DBA: 50-75k (probably 3+ years of relevant experience, but not DBA
>> experience)
>> DBA: 60-90k (several years DBA experience)
>> Sr DBA:80-120k (several years DBA experience plus extensive knowledge)
>>
>> Anyone feel like correcting me?
>>
>
> I suspect H1B ssalaries tend to be somewhat below these levels.
>
> also, it really depends if DBA means purely administration and operations,
> if so, I'd expect salaries to be somewhat lower than those ranges, or
> whether it includes application design and development management, whereupon
> they could be higher. There really aren't that many shops that need a
> full time pure database administrator, its far more likely in the postgres
> world for the DBA hat to be worn by someone who's primary job is general
> systems administrator.
>
>
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