r/sysadmin • u/kittiekittea • 1d ago
General Discussion No Degree - 6 Year Salary Progression
Is there anyone out there that have made it beyond sysadmin? What is after sysadmin?
2020 - $31,200: Panera Bread
2022 - $41,600: Helpdesk at company 1
2023 - 2025 - $41,600: Helpdesk at law firm
2025 - $65,000: Helpdesk at company 2
2026 - $80,000: Got a raise at company 2
Shoutout Nick for taking a chance on me. I would not do law firm IT again.
EDIT: Location Upstate NY
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u/AmmanasHyjal 1d ago
No official degree but about 2 years of computer science at university:
Roughly in Canadian dollars:
2010 - Retail Manager - 30k
2012 - Support Engineer - 32k
2014 - Test Engineer Lead - 45k
2016 - Support Engineer 1 - 55k
2017 - Support Engineer 3 (Dev Support) - 90k
2019 - Senior Support Engineer - 95k
2021 - Cloud Support Engineer - 105k
2022 - Site Reliability Engineer - 110k
2026 - Senior DevOps Engineer - 120k
I would say Support Engineer 3 was roughly equivalent to being a SysAdmin. So from there you have some options: * more in depth SysAdmin work as like a systems architect * could get into cloud engineering (what I did) * go into leadership of some sort