Re: DBA to Solve your database headaches

"Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote in message news:3bdea42c$0$231$ed9e5944_at_reading.news.pipex.net...
> "Nuno Souto" <nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam> wrote in message
> news:3bde7837.7726683_at_news...
> > In a valiant and sublime effort,Niall Litchfield
> > frowned, dipped a thumb in soot and doodled:
> >
> > >
> > >I am quite interested in this "Prolong" language that he knows.
> > >
> >
> > Classic. Read: headhunter without a clue.
> >
> >
> > >Also a london based top database designer ought by rights to be
somewhat
> > >more expensive than 700 quid a day on a short term contract.
> > >
> >
> > Shewt! Mind sending some of those jobs down here?
>
> Try www.cw360.com for UK conditions and news. I put senior dba inner
london
> into the salary checker there and got 55K for a permie job double that for
> an annual equivalent rate for contractors. Bear in mind that I'm
suggesting
> that 700 quid a day is below the rate for a 'short term' contract only.
> Hiring a real expert to troubleshoot costs. Sadly it doesn't actually
> convert into salaries for us permies in the rest of the country. My wife,
> who is a Patent Attorney, earns for example over twice my salary. I guess
> the same probably applies as between say sydney and perth.
>
>
> --
> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
> Audit Commission Uk
>
>
>

I'm way below the 55K you mention, and I'm a consultant. Other side of the North Sea.
My usual rate seems to be fl 200,- (about 100 euro) per hour for people hiring me, and my hourly salary (excluding incentives) is about 25 percent of that rate.

My company is writing red figures currently ...

Regards

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Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

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