From: Brian Hescock (bhescock@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Jul 27 2000 - 16:20:24 GMT-3
Base salary or total compensation? Total compensation, sure, no problem
with the figures you're stating. Sure you may see some offers out there
for the salaries indicated but I'm sure there are many many more that
don't list the salary figure and is far lower.
B.
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Wojtek Iwanczyk wrote:
> If you are a CCNP in most parts of the country, the low is around $100K,and C
CIEs oftentimes get well over $160K .. Companies are willing to pay this becaus
e of the discounts Cisco gives based upon the Certification status of their emp
loyees ... Just look at offers on some of the major job sites ... its out there
...
>
> Wojtek Iwanczyk
> Sr Support Engineer
> Exenet Technologies
> 15 E 26th Street
> New York, NY 10010
> (212) 684 7300
> wiwanczyk@exenet.com
>
>
> >>> Brian Hescock <bhescock@cisco.com> 07/27/00 01:13PM >>>
> Sorry, I have to disagree with the $130,000 as a min CCIE salary, it
> depends what part of the country you're in. As an example, people in
> parts of California make about $30,000 or more per year because of the
> high cost of living there. You can verify that by going to one of the
> many salary calculators available on the web. Compare your $130,000+
> salary for the city you live in to other cities in the U.S. I'm sure
> you'll find quite a few CCIE's making less than $100,000 per year in many
> parts of the country. My $.02
>
> Brian
>
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Jackson, Tony C. wrote:
>
> > Well,
> >
> > If it was about the money, you could make over $130k per year without CCIE.
> >
> >
> > Most IT Directors enjoy the technical skills a CCIE may bring to the table
> > and they would pay for those skills set. However, a business savy tech
> > person that can develop real business solutions through use of technology i
s
> > Priceless!
> >
> > The senior level guys I work with or soooo good! They have been around for
> > at least 8+ years. They believe CCIE is a waste of time for them. But they
> > don't knock anyone that has the cert after they have proving themselves in
> > the real world environment of course.
> >
> >
> > Say for instance you show up at a Company with your brand new CCIE label
> > stamp on your chest. Expectations are high with the new cert, for those wh
o
> > didn't know.
> >
> > The first thing the boss tells you is that he wants to implement a ERP
> > solution using SAP R/3 software on IBM AIX boxes. Implementing this type of
> > a solution for client requires, Project management skills,
> > Consulting skills, Tech skills, and my favorite - knowing how to get thing
s
> > done in lieu of just knowing how they are done.
> >
> > Tony C. Jackson
> > Network Systems Engineer
> > LAM Research
> > 510-572-5239 office
> > 877-694-2303 pager
> > 510-673-0091 cell
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
> > Matt C. Lange
> > Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 6:50 AM
> > To: ali Hussain; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> > Subject: RE: stats??
> >
> >
> > I know where this is going, even though the CCIE does prove the highest
> > level of networking ability, there will be so many ccie's out there soon.
> > Everyone in this industry wants to have it because of the 130,000 a year mi
n
> > a CCIE can get. Pretty soon it wont be hard to find Cisco people, but very
> > hard to find Nortel,FORE,Juniper, and Cabletron engineers. This is just m
y
> > to cents : ^ )
> >
> > I would say also to go with your Cisco Knowledge add some UNIX(not Linux) t
o
> > your bag of weapons.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
> > ali Hussain
> > Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 6:51 PM
> > To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> > Subject: stats??
> >
> >
> > How many double CCIE's are in here.... I hear there
> > are around 100 in the world???
> > There are two triple CCIEs???
> > Who are the young(est) and old(est) CCIE's??? I hear
> > there is someone who is 16, and a couple who are
> > 20-22...in fact, two of them are part of this group.
> > this interests me to see where this is going
> >
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