Wait this is just my current job but with double the pay…
fuck I gotta get a new job
Yeah, you need a new job. This is also my current job for not enough pay. You’re getting shafted.
With that being said, this isn’t really 3 jobs like the post implies. If you’ve worked with data integrations before, you know how SQL, APIs and cloud solutions interact.
A German three letter agency had a similar ad. They were looking for someone who was proficient in encryption, hacking, protocols on Windows, Mac and Linux, and a few other things in that area. Experienced both in programming and leadership. And as a cherry on the top, this person would have to have knowledge about all the legal aspects of all of this, too.
All for a midrange bureaucrat salary. A security expert commented on this something like “if i had someone with that kind of skill set and experience, I would hire him out for a daily fee about as high as their offered monthly salary.”
Many years ago I got offered 20% over minimum wage to manage, among other things, all email servers of a large banking association representing >90% of a national market.
It was less than what a Tesco cashier was making in the area.
When I was a student, I already had my Novell admin certificate, so it got some jobs on the side. Someone pointed me to a law firm where the owner wanted their PCs networked. We met, he showed me the list of hardware he wanted to buy - everything top notch, big server, new PCs with all bells, whistles and gongs back then, 19in rack for all the necessities, etc. That list was an offer from an expensive office outfitter he knew.
He “just” needed someone to install the stuff. I could easily have done that, but all he offered was a kind of internship. Oh what I could learn from working with top of the pop equipment! I told him I was here because it already knew everything that was needed. He then offered me that I could take the old PCs as “compensation”.
I left, and warned others not to waste time with that idiot.
And people still get mad when we give honest feedback about compensation.
Shout-out to the recruiter who tried to convince me to take a 60k paycut because nobody will pay my current rate ( the one I was already being paid ). I strive to reach your level of audacity one day.
Am I crazy that those sound reasonable IT manager level things? If company size is 100-200 endpoints, the IT manager should understand all of these, if he/she doesn’t, I would not want to work at that IT team
It manager level for entry level pay
Have you seen pay these days? Where are you getting 110k entry level?
If it’s an onsite position, it depends on living costs.
Some people are claiming 3k for rent is the minimum in the area. Just north of Beverly Hills.
That’s half the salary, just for a studio apartment. Then there’s another chunk for taxes and they’re left with 1-2k for general expenses and living life.
Salaries isn’t a simple thing you can move from one area to another
That’s when you live in a van down by the river instead
I guess where I work, if you’re on carpet you’re 80-110k salary for jobs like purchasing, inventory etc not engineers or supoort. if you work in shipping or manufacturing you’re around 65-85k depending on experience
Must be nice
The pay scale people have become accustomed to is absurd.
California has a minimum wage for software employees to be salaried and not pay them overtime (salaried exempt). It’s about $123k. I’ve never seen an entry level position that didn’t expect overtime, so $110k is actually low unless it’s a part time internship.
Also leaving that link there for anyone who might have just discovered their employer is doing wage theft and owes them a lot of money.
I’ve worked at places with <50 people where the 2 IT people had “manager” titles, but they were just “the IT people” in practice - one handled user stuff, the other was focused on the client-facing infrastructure.
Our lone HR person was also the “HR manager”, we had a single “accounting manager”, and a couple more like that. Some departments ended up expanding and the “managers” did end up with direct reports, but that’s kinda just how small businesses work, this posting sounds a lot like that.
110k usd is entry level pay? I hate america so much its unreal.
There’s not enough hours in day to do all those tasks that this will entail. You’ll constantly be dragged between different domains nd have no time to focus on anything
Source: I’ve done this job before. Company wasn’t even big either. Just 30 people or so
You’re not crazy, it’s just that posts like this are generally tribal. Nobody here actually knows what the day-to-day of that job is, they just want a pretext to vent about their own experiences of being asked to do work that they didn’t want to do.
P1: Printer not working again!
P2: Ah I’ll go tell that programmer guy
That company, probably
Honestly, this is what we currently have at our mid sized company. We get paid dogshit, nobody has a dedicated position we’re just all “IT” and we do everything to keep shit running
You won’t get away with 100k if printer issues are included… your soul and those of the other employees would be a start.
God, I hate printers.
Well it doesn’t say you have to do any of them well.
Well you must have excellent communication skills.
For the actual IT stuff, they don’t really care.
That one’s the dealbreaker. If you do all that stuff, you only have time for a grunt or two from behind your 17 inch TFT monitor.
If its a small company you are going to have people split between multiple things as it doesn’t make financial sense to have 3 specialists.
Where I work is under 30 people, we don’t have a HR department or even a HR role. HR is done by someone who also has other roles to fill.
Typical of a 20-30 people company where everyone has to do different things.
Our client is a large Law Firm in Los Angeles (Sherman Oaks Area) that is looking to hire a talented IT Manager. They have an excellent culture and do a great job at retaining their staff long-term. This person MUST live in LA and be willing to be on site!!
Though it’s not an IT company so their IT department may very well be like 2 or 3 people
I worked a short stint as a network administrator for a company I did not like at all. I figured it’d be a foot in the door, but boy was I wrong. I didn’t last 6 months, I was doing work of a network tech, network admin, security tech for door locks and cameras, a custodian, and general computer tech in all that. It was a VASTLY underpaid position for the work.
Meanwhile CEO makes 3mil a year while planning to
sellmerge the company with another one and get the golden parachute.Found the listing for anyone curious about the company. It’s a recruitment company recruiting for a law firm.
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/information-technology-manager-at-bookman-consulting-4453231245
It’s three jobs on a slow day.
This is basically my current job. Almost the same pay (120k) in the Seattle area.
I work 50-70 hours a week
PTO listed as a benefit? Must be the USA 😁
I saw similar when looking for work as a graphic designer, with duties that can be summarised as “design our printed materials, build our website (with JavaScript knowledge required), and also plan our marketing strategy”.
Then when I mentioned this in a Clients from Hell comment section, I got someone defend the practice with that small companies can’t afford to hire separate people for the 3 separate skillsets…
