
Salary Report - Windows UNIX - Admin Engineer - USA - 1 Year
Salary Report
Information Technology Job
Microsoft Windows and UNIX
System Professional
United States Location
United States of America
Nationwide
Metropolitan Areas
Competitive Position® Salary Report
Salary Average
$47,859
Experience Requirement
1 Year
Raise +1 Year
$10,354 at 21.64%
Salary and Number of Jobs

About Salary and Jobs
Salary Range :
At required Experience of 1 Year: $47,859 is Salary average; 50% of Jobs pay between $34,577 & $61,142; and, 5% of Jobs top $80,255.
Number of Jobs :
Most Jobs are available closest to the Salary Average.
Fewer Jobs are available at Lower and Higher Salaries.
Salary End Points :
$15,080 = minimum wage annual salary in the USA.
$187,699 = annual salary for the highest paying IT Job in the USA at the Top 2.5% Experience and Top 2.5% Salary.
Top Salaries
Top Percentile of Job market | Top Salary |
---|---|
2.5% | $86,464 |
5% | $80,255 |
10% | $73,098 |
25% | $61,142 |
33% | $56,341 |
50% | $47,859 |
Top Percentile of Job Market =
Number of Jobs Above the Top Salary
÷
Number of all Jobs at 1 Year Experience.
Salary Range and Jobs
Percentage of Jobs within Salary Lows and Highs
Percent of Job Market | Salary Range | |
---|---|---|
Low Salary | High Salary | |
10% | $45,385 | $50,334 |
25% | $41,585 | $54,134 |
33% | $39,377 | $56,341 |
50% | $34,577 | $61,142 |
67% | $28,808 | $66,911 |
Salary Average =
$47,859
Mid Point between each Low/High pair.
Percent of Job Market =
Number of Jobs with Salary between Low/High pair
÷
Number of all Jobs at 1 Year Experience.
Salary and Experience

Salary ±1 Year
Experience | Salary Average | Raise +1 Year |
---|---|---|
Entry Level | $30,158 | $17,701 at 58.69% |
1 Year | $47,859 | $10,354 at 21.64% |
2 Years | $58,214 | $7,347 at 12.62% |
About Salary and Experience
Salary by Year :
Salary is lowest at entry level, increases rapidly with the first years of experience and approaches a ceiling as experience matures.
Salary and Experience Range :
Salary average rises with experience: $46,772 at the low experience of 11 Months; $75,195 at the average experience of 4 Years and 10 Months; and, $88,313 at the top experience of 8 Years and 9 Months.
Experience End Points :
0 = Entry Level.
11 Years and 1 Month = Top 2.5% Experience in the IT Job with the highest required experience in the USA.
Salary by Year
Experience | Salary Average | Raise +1 Year |
---|---|---|
1 Year | $47,859 | $10,355 at 21.64% |
2 Years | $58,214 | $7,346 at 12.62% |
3 Years | $65,560 | $5,699 at 8.69% |
4 Years | $71,259 | $4,656 at 6.53% |
5 Years | $75,915 | $3,936 at 5.18% |
6 Years | $79,851 | $3,410 at 4.27% |
7 Years | $83,261 | $3,008 at 3.61% |
8 Years | $86,269 | $2,691 at 3.12% |
Salary and Experience Range
95% of Jobs require Experience between the Low and Top
Experience | Salary Average | Raise +1 Year | |
---|---|---|---|
Low | 11 Months | $46,772 | $10,722 at 22.92% |
Average | 4 Years and 10 Months | $75,195 | $4,041 at 5.37% |
Top | 8 Years and 9 Months | $88,313 | $2,494 at 2.82% |
Qualifications
Description
This position involves server and network administration with a focus on system installation, optimization, monitoring, maintenance and/or troubleshooting.
Skills
The qualifications of this information technology Job:
- UNIX Server,
- AIX, BMS, BSD, Hewlett Packard (HP) UNIX, IRIX, Linux, SCO, Solaris or UNIX;
- Microsoft Server,
- Active Directory, Exchange Server, IIS, ISA Server, SMS or Windows Server;
- Systems Administration Tasks,
- Administer, Back Up, Capacity Planning, Configure, Disaster Recovery, Install, Maintain, Monitor, Performance Tuning, Security or Upgrade;
- Professional,
- Administrator, Architect, Engineer, Support or Technician.
Characteristics
A+ Skills
Additional IT skills and US Cities requested in some job descriptions:
- Manager,
- 10% of job descriptions,
- Project Leader, Project Manager, Supervisor, Team Leader or Technical Lead;
- Graduate Degree,
- 3% of job descriptions,
- Master of Science in Computer Engineering, Master of Science in Computer Science, Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, MA/MS in Information Technology, MA/MS in Information Science, Master of Arts Degree, Master of Science Degree or Ph.D.;
- Java,
- 14% of job descriptions,
- Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), Java, Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE), Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE), JavaApplet, Java Database Call (JDBC), Java Development Kit (JDK), Java Messaging Service (JMS), Jbuilder, JavaServer Faces (JSF), JSP, Java Swing or Sun Certified Java Programmer;
- Python,
- 7% of job descriptions;
- Microsoft IIS,
- 14% of job descriptions;
- Apache,
- 20% of job descriptions;
- EMC NetWorker,
- 12% of job descriptions;
- Finance Industry,
- 15% of job descriptions,
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Asset Management, Banking, Brokerage, Commodity Trading, Derivative Trading, Equity Trading, Financial, Insurance, Investment, Securities Trading, Stock Market or Wall Street
with
Business, Company, Corporation, Enterprise, Firm or Industry; - Financial Trading System,
- 4% of job descriptions,
- Bloomberg, MarketData, Trading Application, Trading Platform, Trading Software, Trading Solution or Trading System;
- Security Clearance,
- 8% of job descriptions;
- Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV,
- 18% of jobs;
- New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA,
- 14% of jobs.
Location
United States of America