RE: DBA pay in university
- From: "Goulet, Richard" <Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "David Pintor" <painterman@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:13:02 -0400
Dave,
That's usually not including the 10 holidays we observe. I assume
your in Europe and yes we do envy you folks. Especially the folks in
India, they really KNOW how to have holidays!!!
Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
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From: David Pintor [mailto:painterman@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 12:07 PM
To: Goulet, Richard
Cc: Dubovecky, Jeff; dackoc@xxxxxxxxx; jpiwowar@xxxxxxxxx;
cboyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; kp0773@xxxxxxxxx; Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: DBA pay in university
Two weeks vacation?!
Guys, I really don't know how you survive there in the US with only two
weeks of holidays a year...
David
On 27 October 2010 16:44, Goulet, Richard <Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Well, I'll tell you what I found during my interview, name of
the institution intentionally left out.
1- Nice small institution (somewhere between 10K and 20K
students).
2- Nice location, straight up NH route 113 from my home (that
can be really enjoyable in the fall and spring, bit of a problem in the
winter but that's what a 4X4 is for)
3- Salary along the lines for NH ( about 1/3 rd of my current
at the time)
4- Benefits similar to industry (health and dental, 2 weeks
vacation to start, long term disability, 401K match similar to industry,
no pension, etc.....)
5- reduced tuition for self and direct family members
(something like 25%)
6- Single DBA for the entire institution, required to handle
Oracle, DB2, and Sql*Server (Production, development, testing, and
student play areas)
7- Did your own OS maintenance as well, mostly Windoze.
8- 24x7 support with pager and VPN
9- Expected to assist staff and students with DB problems,
questions, etc.....
Now you tell me if I made the right choice or not.
Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
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From: Dubovecky, Jeff [mailto:jpd40@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 11:25 AM
To: dackoc@xxxxxxxxx; jpiwowar@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: cboyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Goulet, Richard;
kp0773@xxxxxxxxx; Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: DBA pay in university
Just to follow-up on this thread, I'm also a public university
employee and I agree with Carol on most of her points. Benefits such
as Tuition reimbursement for self/children and retirement plan/match
were big factors in my decision to work at a University even at a lesser
salary. For the staff I manage, we are more like a business as well as
we're responsible not only for production dba support, but also
development and BI/Data Warehouse initiatives.
In terms of technology, this is where I was pleasantly
surprised. We utilize many different technologies within the Oracle
stack (RAC, Data Guard, OEM, PeopleSoft) as well as other IT initiatives
(VMWare, etc.). While maybe not considered cutting edge anymore, this
was a lot more than I expected coming in.
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