What is a fair salary for someone with a general IT person w/ a NetSuite Essentials certification and 2.5 years of HelpDesk experiences administering and developing the NetSuite system as they learn how to?

Largely depends on where you live, I'd recommend checking anderson frank salary survey at the least to see how you compare to regional averages.

And then half it :)

@ERP Experts why half it?

Haha well AF usually over inflate the salary to entice prospective employees to go with them, stating that someone with 2 years NS experience is now worth £60k...when they can't even create an Approvals Workflow 😞

@ERP Experts I do not think so. Individual NS experience depends upon where the candidate worked. What about someone who can just create approval workflow but cannot create scripts. End users usually pay more than what Anderson Frank quoted in the survey in case Candidate gets hired directly by the NS end user as they do not have to pay commission to the recruitment agency

Let's just say that if I had someone coming to me demanding £60,000...they better be able to make me £400,000 income from it, or it's not worth it.

@ERP Experts it depends. If you are working for end user then it comes under operations and considered as an expense for the company. If you are working for a partner then you need to make the money and asking for 8 times you paid to your employee is good expectation but I think it is too high😀

@ERP Experts So you expect to be able to make 340,000 in profit off of a 60,000 investment?

Billable employees I do. There's other overheads in the company that cannot generate income, so the billables need to cover that. A/P and A/R don't make money. The bills don't make money.

Are you an intermediary service which connects developers to clients like AF?

Ah sorry, I'm a NetSuite Professional Services company and we have to be exemplary in our skills and consulting...so when the end user's NS Admin gets stuck, they call us.

Typical salary postings I see for NetSuite consultants in US is much higher than 60,000 pounds a year. The cheapest consultant I could get from Anderson Frank was over $120 USD per hour. I'd imagine that the consultant keeps at least half of that, probably 60-70%, which would leave them making well over $100k a year if they billed 40 hours per week.

Ah for sure... where you'd have to pay $ 000's per month for top notch health insurance in US, it's £0 here.

for a family of four the employee and employer pay $27000 in healthcare premiums combined on average

They usually have to still contribute when they want something though right? Like birth of a child, or cancer drugs etc?

@Collin Hannah to answer your question directly i would estimate around 80-100 K with a wild variation coming in from location which could boost it from 60K(midwest bumblef***) to 120K (cali)