What is a fair salary for someone a general IT per...
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Collin Hannah
04/27/2020, 2:45 PMWhat is a fair salary for someone 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?
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Alex K
04/27/2020, 3:16 PMNot sure what Essentials cert is - is that SuiteFoundations exam?
Sounds like you are trying to get salary ranges to compare your own against, and it will be tough to say without knowing the cost of living of you area.
Anderson Frank does a salary survey that is free to download when you give them your email to spam messages to. The survey definitely represents high cost of living areas but can give you a benchmark to start with.
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Andrea Rivetti
04/27/2020, 3:28 PMOf Course. You could start from 17-1500 Eur in Italy/Spain/ Greece and reach 10K in US for Example, passing for 3000 in the Nordics or in Germany. But social systems, local employment tax and contributions are so different that it's impossible to compare. Maybe if you specify a specific country...
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Collin Hannah
04/27/2020, 3:56 PM@Alex K Yes, sorry that's what I meant.
@andrea I am in Houston, TX, USA. I honestly don't know what to ask for. I handle the general IT environment. It's a relatively small company (only about 35 computer users and almost everything is on the cloud). I spend about 80% of my time on the NetSuite System.
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C_Billings
04/27/2020, 5:16 PMTo be honest its different in TX. You might cap out at 80k even if you were great with that size firm.
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Collin Hannah
04/27/2020, 5:17 PMIf I were to get anything close to that I would be ecstatic; that's twice what I make now.
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C_Billings
04/27/2020, 5:44 PMMove West...
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Collin Hannah
04/27/2020, 6:06 PMwhats the salary difference?
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C_Billings
04/27/2020, 6:22 PMYou need a lot more experience but once you get it a good admin gets 100k here...but the jobs are not plentiful
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KevinJ of Kansas
04/27/2020, 6:23 PMI'd probably encourage you to temper your expectations a bit as well, I'd consider you far closer to entry level than 3 years of experience.
KevinJ of Kansas
04/27/2020, 6:24 PMMainly because you are admittedly new to NetSuite (just a few weeks if I recall properly)
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Collin Hannah
04/27/2020, 6:24 PMI am entry level, at least when it comes to netsuite.
Collin Hannah
04/27/2020, 6:24 PMwhen it comes to help desk, I am mid-level.
Collin Hannah
04/27/2020, 6:25 PMThe Suite-foundation is the entry level certification for netsuite admins, right?
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KevinJ of Kansas
04/27/2020, 6:26 PMIt's entry level certification for any Netsuite cert. Including standard user certifications
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Collin Hannah
04/27/2020, 6:27 PMso it doesn't reallly get you any brownie points?
Collin Hannah
04/27/2020, 6:27 PMreally*
Collin Hannah
04/27/2020, 6:28 PMyou need the higher level certs before you can reasonably expect any type of salary boost?
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C_Billings
04/27/2020, 6:28 PMYears of experience in NS is what matters...Lots of IT guys get pissed using NetSuite. Their experience is sometimes useless
C_Billings
04/27/2020, 6:29 PMSalary boosts come with expectations. if you are certified 4x over like me people start to expect things...but I have friends with no certifications that blow my skills away..
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Collin Hannah
04/27/2020, 6:37 PMI find certifications helpful because they give you a general guide to how to approach the systems you're using.
Collin Hannah
04/27/2020, 6:37 PMI was so lost when I first started NetSuite.
Collin Hannah
04/27/2020, 6:38 PMWhy do IT guys get pissed? I was definitely lost. I was like ... "where's the database interface..? we do everything with the UI?"
Collin Hannah
04/27/2020, 6:46 PM@KevinJ of Kansas also, just for perspective... looking at even the 0-2 years of experience with netsuite, the salaries even at the low end are way more than i make now haha
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