Anyone know the average salary  for the telecommunications, Networking/Lan/Wan field?
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In Tampa, you have all the call centers, verizon, aol, bellsouth, Zytel, and alot of the others.  They start between 10-14 an hour.  The retail stores hire techs around 9.  You also have Road Runner, they start around 11 I think, cable pullers around 8, and of course if you have a truck you can install cable for a commision.\n\nTo get higher, if you have the education, you'd go for the private companies looking for IT work, you might start as high as 15 an hour if you keep looking.
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The computer has your answer...www.salary.com
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go to salary.com and look it up for your area
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Depends on where you live and what the demand is like. Also depends on your education and experience. Both hotjobs.com and monster.com have salary calculators.
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Depends on where you live.  Go to Salary.com and look it up.  You should be able to find what you are looking for.
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It's going to depend somewhat on where you are in the country, like cities in the east versus midwest versus west coast.  Location alone could account for a 10K difference in entry level salary for example.  It may also depend on what the college degree is backing up the Cisco certification.  In this field, an engineering degree would pay higher than a computer science degree which would pay higher than an information systems degree, at least generally speaking.  This could account for another 5-10K difference in entry level salary.  \n\nSo I could see both ends of the spectrum you described, if you have a 4-year electrical engineering degree and a CCNP in New York City or San Jose you might be worth 61K/year.  For a 2-year associates degree in computer information systems and a CCNA in a small remote city, maybe that's worth 10 to 20K less for those employers.  Of course you need to factor in the cost of living, etc.\n\nAnyway, your numbers from your other contacts sound right on average, 30-35K for CCNA level and 40-45K for CCNP level with no other experience in the field.  \n\nThe CCIE certification is another story.  This is the Black Belt certification for anything related to networking, and a CCIE cert in some cases could make the sky the limit but almost certainly over 80-85K.  In some cases the CCIE is a bigger deal than a graduate degree, which happened in my case, and pissed me off because I spent 2.5 years on my Masters in Computer Science, when the CCIE would have actually helped my career faster if I did that first.  So my advice there is if you're working in the networking field and want a graduate degree, consider going for your CCIE first. \n\nThe 2 people I do know who came right out of college with a CCNP cert did manage to get a small bump in their starting salary, but it was closer to 5K.
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Try http://www.salary.com you can check out the salary by locations.
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Hi! It depends on the company you work for, but I'd say if you are really good you can expect a salary around the 60.000 or more depending on your gereat awesome skills! Bye!
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Please check www.salary.com and it will give you a listing of median, average and percentile pay scales based on your experience and expertise
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Not sure if this will be helpful, but salary.com has a pretty good engine for determining salary in a particular geographical area. Not trying to plug a site, but that's what I use to verify employment when I underwrite loans (I work for a mortgage company). \n\n:o)
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Look it up at www.salary.com! :)
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Highly variable depending on what your degree is in, what kind of job you have, and any other related experience you have. On average, though, you are looking at about $4500/mo.\nBut remember this varies widely based on the above mentioned variables.
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Try this site:\n\nhttp://www.salaryexpert.com/
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http://salary.com/careers/layouthtmls/crel_display_Cat10_Ser177_Par277.html
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Excellent field but it is much wider than most people imagine.  You can go the infrastructure route; switches, routers, addressing-think CISCO.  You can study Microsoft, various UNIX varieties (Linux, Solaris, SCO).\nIt takes a lot of study and a desire to constantly upgrade and grow.  You can never sit on your laurels.\nI started in the field about 8 years ago.  I am not a youngster...Dropped in pay initially to the low 40's..Hit 80's last year.  Good luck----Study IPv6.
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here is a tool that will tell you what you are worth at different points in your career.  It is also location specific.  It may anser your question better\n\nhttp://seeker.dice.com/profman/salaryWizard.jsp
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Take a look at salary.com. You can get an estimate there.