RE: DBA pay in university
- From: Don Granaman <DonGranaman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx" <Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx>, David Pintor <painterman@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:05:57 -0500
10 holidays? How about 6 "standard" holidays that most in the private sector
get. I am "lucky" and get 7 - the std 6 + the day after Thanksgiving.
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Subject: RE: DBA pay in university
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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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<mailto: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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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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