July 6, 2016 at 9:44 am
Hello Fellow DBAs/Developers/Consultants/Managers,
I couldn't find a reliable + recent source for DBA salaries in USA.
If you're interested in this poll, you must select 4 options :
one (and only one) from years of experience
one (and only one) from location
one (and only one) from type of job
one (and only one) from either yearly salary or hourly salary
For e.g., I would choose :
5-10 years
Other major city, or Suburbs
Full-Time Employee
75,000 - 100,000
July 6, 2016 at 9:46 am
Oh, the formatting seems weird, it doesn't show all options.
How do I delete this one, and how do I increase the number of options in poll ?
July 6, 2016 at 9:59 am
sqld-_-ba (7/6/2016)
Hello Fellow DBAs/Developers/Consultants/Managers,I couldn't find a reliable + recent source for DBA salaries in USA.
If you're interested in this poll, you must select 4 options :
one (and only one) from years of experience
one (and only one) from location
one (and only one) from type of job
one (and only one) from either yearly salary or hourly salary
For e.g., I would choose :
5-10 years
Other major city, or Suburbs
Full-Time Employee
75,000 - 100,000
DBAs, Developers, Consultants and Managers tend to have salaries in different bands, I would suggest, and your data may be skewed if you don't capture that. Or are you really just interested in DBAs?
No idea about the stuffed-up formatting.
If you haven't even tried to resolve your issue, please don't expect the hard-working volunteers here to waste their time providing links to answers which you could easily have found yourself.
July 6, 2016 at 10:02 am
Good point, I can add that, once I figure out formatting.
I just messaged Steve Jones to help with creating a poll that is multiple-choice across groups and single-choice within a group
July 6, 2016 at 10:12 am
sqld-_-ba (7/6/2016)
Hello Fellow DBAs/Developers/Consultants/Managers,I couldn't find a reliable + recent source for DBA salaries in USA.
Glassdoor.com is very good and reliable. For example - a google search for "glassdoor dba salary chicago" gets you to https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/chicago-database-administrator-salary-SRCH_IL.0,7_IM167_KO8,30.htm which, IMO, gets you some accurate results when you scroll down to the Recent Salary Reports area.
-- Itzik Ben-Gan 2001
August 15, 2016 at 1:57 pm
FYI, the salary survey has been published on home page - https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/SSC-Salary-Survey-2016
Spread the word !
August 16, 2016 at 7:13 am
What are you trying to accomplish with this survey? You are not likely going to get very many responses which makes the data you collect pretty much useless.
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August 16, 2016 at 8:07 am
> What are you trying to accomplish with this survey?
To get many responses and make the data collected useful
August 16, 2016 at 8:16 am
sqld-_-ba (8/15/2016)
FYI, the salary survey has been published on home page - https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/SSC-Salary-Survey-2016Spread the word !
You might want to make your link clickable.
August 16, 2016 at 8:21 am
sqld-_-ba (8/16/2016)
> What are you trying to accomplish with this survey?To get many responses and make the data collected useful
But useful for what? Unfortunately the membership of SSC is quite a small percentage of the DBA people. And then only a small percentage of them will answer. I am just saying that you might find a larger company who focuses on this sort thing to have much more reliable data.
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August 16, 2016 at 10:09 am
I read somewhere SSC has 600K visitors. Assuming 10% see the salary survey, and 1% respond, that is 6000 responses. I'm also trying to advertise this on stackexchange, and popular blogs like pinal dave and brent ozar.
I hope to a good representation of salaries of dbas who are active in online forums/communities etc. since their knowledge/skillset/salaries usually tends to be higher than those who do not participate much in the social component of their job.
August 16, 2016 at 10:32 am
sqld-_-ba (8/16/2016)
I read somewhere SSC has 600K visitors. Assuming 10% see the salary survey, and 1% respond, that is 6000 responses. I'm also trying to advertise this on stackexchange, and popular blogs like pinal dave and brent ozar.I hope to a good representation of salaries of dbas who are active in online forums/communities etc. since their knowledge/skillset/salaries usually tends to be higher than those who do not participate much in the social component of their job.
What are you using it for? I am really just curious what the end goal is. I don't mean to sound like I am challenging you. What is this data going to provide for you?
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August 16, 2016 at 10:39 am
sqld-_-ba (8/16/2016)
I read somewhere SSC has 600K visitors. Assuming 10% see the salary survey, and 1% respond, that is 6000 responses. I'm also trying to advertise this on stackexchange, and popular blogs like pinal dave and brent ozar.I hope to a good representation of salaries of dbas who are active in online forums/communities etc. since their knowledge/skillset/salaries usually tends to be higher than those who do not participate much in the social component of their job.
6,000 responses spread across multiple countries. How you'll meaningfully compare the responses of a DBA from Swaziland with one from Taiwan will be interesting to see ...
If you haven't even tried to resolve your issue, please don't expect the hard-working volunteers here to waste their time providing links to answers which you could easily have found yourself.
August 16, 2016 at 2:51 pm
sqld-_-ba (8/16/2016)
I read somewhere SSC has 600K visitors. Assuming 10% see the salary survey, and 1% respond, that is 6000 responses. I'm also trying to advertise this on stackexchange, and popular blogs like pinal dave and brent ozar.I hope to a good representation of salaries of dbas who are active in online forums/communities etc. since their knowledge/skillset/salaries usually tends to be higher than those who do not participate much in the social component of their job.
Lately, it's mostly been one-time SPAM propagators.
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January 16, 2017 at 11:26 am
Sean Lange - Tuesday, August 16, 2016 10:32 AMWhat are you using it for? I am really just curious what the end goal is. I don't mean to sound like I am challenging you. What is this data going to provide for you?
We got ~400 responses for this - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Salary+Survey/151262/
During my performance review, I told my company that I helped create a salary survey on a popular sql forum, and after negotiations, got a 10% pay increase.
That was my end goal, and it was achieved, partly due to this survey.. cos it showed them I was capable of doing my own market research to find competitive industry value. And it could definitely help others compare their salaries and negotiate as well. Basically, a tiny glassdoor.com
BTW, another unintended consequence was that, Brent Ozar, after seeing this survey, published a similar survey on his blog and it got ~3000 responses
Check it out - https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2017/01/tell-us-make-2017-data-professional-salary-survey
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