good IT salary

[pigeonflight]

What is a good salary for an IT worker?

What kind of price range would someone coming out of UTECH or UWI be expecting?

[RobyG]

It depends...What area of IT do they specialize in?

I don't know about hardware but for a programmer fresh out of University with some amount of experience a reasonable 'take home' salary would be say $80,000/mth.
With no experience probably about $60,000/mth

You also have to take into consideration other benefits that the employer may be offering.

[tech_guru]

Depends on thier area of specialisation and the particular sector they find a job in.......No true figure has been published but I would hazard a guess of between 500k - 750k per annum with a variance of about 150k for University graduates entering the IT sector.....


Statin should have some info on this subject ......... Will try to contact them and see......

[odsamuels]

This all sounds theoretically wonderful... but I've left University and have considerable experience and trust me, it ruff.

[Ropy]

I have not gone to University as yet, I am doing some computer courses: A+, INet+, Java, Network+ & Server+. Some aren’t completed as yet, and with one of those courses up my belt it is suggested that I should get at least US $60,000 per year. And when I think about it, I wonder who the hell in Jamaica is going to hire me or pay that much. I've been job hunting since august and recently got one, and the pay is nothing like what I’m suppose to get. But this is Jamaica still, and it seem that if I want what I’m suppose to get I will have to migrate. So u see, it's not only those who attended University are having it hard.

[pigeonflight]

Just out of curiousity, where are you doing the courses ropy?

[Ropy]

I did them at CRYONIC Institute of Info. Tech. in Montego Bay, I think they have branch in Knigston. I'm not finished though still have Network+ to complete and Server+ to do.

[tech_guru]

60k USD without a University degree.......Man knowing these HR managers locally you would have to be the son of the CEO to get that salary......Man that aint gonna happen.......U planning on migrating Ropy?

[Ropy]

I should have gone since September, last September that is. But I had started my current school already, so for now that is off. I might migrate to do my Bachelors and Masters Degree in Computer and work overseas also, but waiting on the University to come to Montego Bay first. I might migrate depending on how thing a run out here in within the next 2 years. Things happen for a reason, cause if I had gone I wouldn't have found this site and met the peeps that I have in the past year. So it was a good thing I didn't go, cause maybe a friend and I start a Network Security Company all depends on how things a run. Noh Tek wek wi idea still...

[RobyG]

To earn that kind of money, the best way is to go on your own (start your own business)....work hard...get contracts...offer your clients maintenance/service contracts and before you know it you will be bringing in the dough.

When you work for an organization sometimes it takes too long to climb to the top. Think outside the box.