From: Darby Weaver (darbyweaver@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jan 30 2008 - 13:16:01 ARST
This may be true.
Jospeh Brunner quotes some nice rates and I guess as a
trainer and as an outsourcer (I understand he might
hire out soem of his students from time to time), then
yes, contract rates may be exceptional - $150k or even
$150.00 per hour in NY or elsewhere.
However, it seems most CCIE and CCIE-level positions
seems to get to about the $125-150k plus benefits and
bonus.
With that said I recall hearing of a CCIE in my own
company working at a site for a about 1/2 the low
figure.
I know of a double CCIE personally who was a double
and doing 80k till he got a few years of seasoning,
and I'd have to check but with a CCIE RS/Security and
signicicant VoIP experience working for a Gold Partner
he may still be under $125k base.
So... for most of us, I think $100-125k is going to be
the rate for a while. Contract rates will differ
somewhat depending on conditions. $150k may be the
tops.
Just a few observances...
Personally myself and a coworker were speaking of this
yesterday actually came to the conclusion that a CCIE
certification pretty much qualifies one to volunteer
for travel, and extensive travel at that at least for
our company.
Myself, I'm too close to quit the IE quest now however
mypartner is fairly experienced and ties knots with
the IOS on a daily basis... the last quote from TAC
to him was "Is there any feature that you didn't
use..."
But newbies may have a harder time trying to justify
the time and expense required to earn the CCIE, when
there are so many easier roads to follow that require
so much less dedication and regimen to achieve.
--- EdmondsSG@aol.com wrote:
> I'm not sure that having IE means $$$ in the market
> place anymore - maybe
> for people running bootcamps etc and the like - but
> not in my world....
>
> I would think theres more money to be made in
> advising others how to pass
> than in say a bank isp etc ..
>
>
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