RE: DBA pay in university
- From: "Goulet, Richard" <Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Dubovecky, Jeff" <jpd40@xxxxxxxx>, <dackoc@xxxxxxxxx>, <jpiwowar@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:44:37 -0400
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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