[wplug-jobs] System administration rates
Pat Barron
pat at lectroid.com
Sun Jan 6 15:14:13 EST 2013
When I was doing contract sysadmin stuff (and as a disclaimer, it's been
a while...), I was charging between $50 and $75 per hour.
Personally, I don't think I'd be comfortable with any kind of flat, per
server (or per network) fee, unless the needs of the client were very
light. If you're dealing with a large customer, and a production server
goes down that they really, really need you to work on basically 24/7
until it's fixed because they're dead in the water until then, and
you're only making $50 total for all that work.... That's kind of an
untenable position to put yourself into....
--Pat.
On 1/6/2013 12:10 PM, Anon Adminer wrote:
> I have done a bit of googling about system administration rates and I
> found that they vary a great deal, from $50/month to $300/month,
> attributable probably in part to differing geograpic areas and OSs.
>
> What are the going rates in the Pittsburgh area? For example, what is
> the reasonable monthly maintenance rate for a small network, 1
> Linux/BSD server running Samba, mail, Apache + 5-6 Win XP/Win 7 machines?
>
> Thanks for your insights.
>
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