Re: DBA to Solve your database headaches

nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam (Nuno Souto) wrote in message news:<3bdedc37.5807878_at_news>...
> Hah! You'd be lucky to get anywhere near that over here. Average
> salary for a DBA permie here is $70K (pacific peso currency), which
> translates to around 25K in Pounds or roughly 35K US$. The good ones
> get around $100-110K, which again is well below those figures.

I do not want to look stupid, however what the hell is "pacific peso currency" ?
I thought, it's Australia we're talking about. There should be Australian dollars as currency. Can you shed a light on me ?

> Contracting is dead, due to huge recession. It used to pay up to
> $100-120 /hour for experienced people, which again is well below those
> figures.
>
> No surprises why we can't find a single good DBA around: they all
> moved overseas. It's gonna be a rude awakening here when business
> realises there simply ain't enough experienced people around. They'll
> have to seriously jack up prices to even convince local ones to move,
> let alone entice any new people to come over...

Yes, world economies are somehow shitty. Maybe you wiil have some DBAs available soon, because moving oversees is maybe not a best way anymore, because of recesion in U.S. We shall see if black numbers will come back soon.

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