Re: What is the average salary for Postgresql DBA

[AI Rumman <rummandba@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks buddy. You are quite right. I may work in the system administrator team as a Database Specialist where primary responsibility may be database tuning, replication and backup policy defining etc.

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:42 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 05/19/11 12:30 AM, Rob Wultsch wrote:

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:52 PM, AI Rumman<rummandba@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:

Hey guys,

If I get H1B visa as Postgresql DBA, then what may I expect to get as my
salary?
Does anyone have idea on this?

Thanks.

This topic never gets many replies. I will reply because I am not
really part of the community.

It depends massively on the company, where you live and your skill
level.  For a normal area (not San Francisco, etc) I think the
following is sane:

Jr DBA: 50-75k (probably 3+ years of relevant experience, but not DBA
experience)
DBA: 60-90k (several years DBA experience)
Sr DBA:80-120k (several years DBA experience plus extensive knowledge)

Anyone feel like correcting me?

I suspect H1B ssalaries tend to be somewhat below these levels.

also, it really depends if DBA means purely administration and operations, if so, I'd expect salaries to be somewhat lower than those ranges, or whether it includes application design and development management, whereupon they could be higher.    There really aren't that many shops that need a full time pure database administrator, its far more likely in the postgres world for the DBA hat to be worn by someone who's primary job is general systems administrator.



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