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.
> 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...

Ah ... the search for DBAs. It's even worse down here in Canberra, Nuno. It took me nearly 18 months to find 2 people who had a clue about oracle (and thankfully they do ... that was a relief). It did have it's humourous moments ... a few applicants having done a quick VB + MS Access course reckoned they could easily do this Oracle thing, and they were *only* asking $60K :-) (pacific pesos again).

Ciao
Fuzzy
:-) Received on Tue Oct 30 2001 - 17:27:31 CST