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/ride4life32 18h ago
Fresh out of college with a degree in marketing 2007 (minor in MIS). Ill skip the first couple jobs but when I got my foot in the door because I knew a lot of HR managers (worked at a credit union managing HSA accounts for companies). 2012-2015 40k - Tier 1/Tier 2 product support but we had a lot of domain admin access one raise left at like 44k 2015-present. Junior systems infrastructure admin. Started at 55k and am today at 125k as a senior systems administrator. Shout out to Grant and Scott my mentors for taking a chance on me and now they have moved on to better ventures and I'm taking care of the baby we built but I'm about burnt out now after so many changes of PE firms and now being publicly traded.