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It's what we do -- so I laugh with you ;)

Expert admins are in the $100-150/hr range when they're consulting, and $100K+ salary range when hired. $100-200/month? Oh lord.

Agreed with the consulting price point, and we charge this. But we also let you get in the door for a few hours a month at a reasonable rate. It's been working for many years now.

You're also based on Michigan a little south of Detroit, so I'm sure you can get away with a lower base rate based on the cost of living there.

Sorta, except we generally hire where the talent is available -- Anywhere USA.

Good luck with your below-the-minimum-wage admin.

I can understand with those numbers why you may think that. These numbers are generally per server and fit a small shop pretty well. We also work with many companies that have hundreds of servers, and the rate is multiplied by each server. I could have been clearer in my initial post.

Additionally, for clarification about your wage comment -- we pay above average US sysadmin wages, and just posted a job for our 7th full-time admin.

> These numbers are generally per server

Well, that's a quite important detail you had omitted. If you start dividing salaries by the number of servers, all kinds of crazy numbers come up.

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