According to dice.com, EarthWeb's online job board for IT professionals, database administrators were offered an average salary of $76,500 per year in July 2000, and an average contract rate of $64 per hour. The lowest salaries came in at around $40,000 per year; and at the high end, senior database administrators could hope for offers as high as $145,000. Averages are based on 707 listings for this type of professional, with cities bearing fewer than 10 listings excluded from mention. Among metro areas, Silicon Valley has the greatest demand for database administrators, with 18% of all listings. That's typical, but several other cities also have a large concentration of DBA jobs; Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and San Francisco each hold 10% or more of the overall demand. Database administrators in San Francisco and Silicon Valley are drawing the highest salaries, at $87,000 per year on average, although not by much. (Seven metro areas have average salaries higher than $75,000.) The highest average contract wage offerings are in New York, at $82 per hour, followed closely by Boston and San Francisco. Data came from available jobs listed during July 2000 on dice.com. Results are based on averages or totals from the following information on dice.com: salary, job type, job skills, and location.
Would you like to see a salary tracker for your job type? Have other ideas for these surveys? Let us know.Highest salary by city (average): San Francisco and Silicon Valley, $87,000 yearly salary Highest contract rate by city (average): New York, $82 per hour Most jobs per city: Silicon Valley, 18% of total
Datamation/dice.com IT Salary Tracker Database administrators: average salaries by city
Source: Datamation/dice.com IT Salary Tracker/July 2000
Datamation/dice.com IT Salary Tracker Database administrators: average contract rates by city
Source: Datamation/dice.com IT Salary Tracker/July 2000
Datamation/dice.com IT Salary Tracker Database administrators: distribution of jobs by city
Source: Datamation/dice.com IT Salary Tracker/July 2000
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