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Old 04-02-2009
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Originally Posted by hpicracing
Thanks for the answer about the accuracy about the information.
Okay, so most people here seem to be putting the starting salary around $50 - $75k a year. What would you say would be the salary after 5 yrs or 10yrs? I thought the thing about making millions sounded a bit odd. That's why I was asking around here about the accuracy of the info. I know I read on a forum a few months ago some guy said he and other system administrators he knew were making about $75 an hour after working about 10 yrs. Where I read this I think the same person said to expect expect about $40 - $50 per/hr starting salary and that you can add about $3 an hour per extra years experience in the job. Does this info sound about right? Sorry for all the questions
Thanks for all the help though... I really appreciate it!
I'm not a Server Admin, but more of an Application Server Admin, J2EE application servers, but they all run on Linux so most of my day is spent on Linux. Most people, unless their contractor's, are paid salary. Because for the company it makes more sense to pay us salary, b/c they know they don't want to pay that quadruple time when a server breaks on Christmas day and you have to work on it for 5 hours, which would obviously be equivalent of getting paid 20 hours.

So most of the jobs will be salaried, and because of that, if you have a nice boss, they are usually very lenient with your on-site working hours. I tend to come in around 830-9 every day, take an hour lunch, and leave around 430-5(yes I know I have a VERY lenient employer), but then again, I still end up working a minimum of 45-50 hours because so much of our work has to be done after hours and on Saturday night at midnight.
 

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holidays(4)							   File Formats 						       holidays(4)

NAME
holidays - prime/nonprime table for the accounting system SYNOPSIS
/etc/acct/holidays DESCRIPTION
The /etc/acct/holidays file describes which hours are considered prime time and which days are holidays. Holidays and weekends are con- sidered non-prime time hours. /etc/acct/holidays is used by the accounting system. All lines beginning with an "*" are comments. The /etc/acct/holidays file consists of two sections. The first non-comment line defines the current year and the start time of prime and non-prime time hours, in the form: current_year prime_start non_prime_start The remaining non-comment lines define the holidays in the form: month/day company_holiday Of these two fields, only the month/day is actually used by the accounting system programs. The /etc/acct/holidays file must be updated each year. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Example of the /etc/acct/holidays file. The following is an example of the /etc/acct/holidays file: * Prime/Nonprime Table for the accounting system * * Curr Prime Non-Prime * Year Start Start * 1991 0830 1800 * * only the first column (month/day) is significant. * * month/day Company Holiday * 1/1 New Years Day 5/30 Memorial Day 7/4 Indep. Day 9/5 Labor Day 11/24 Thanksgiving Day 11/25 day after Thanksgiving 12/25 Christmas 12/26 day after Christmas SEE ALSO
acct(1M) SunOS 5.10 28 Mar 1991 holidays(4)
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