Blog 10

You have decided that you really like this stuff and want to look into what kind of jobs are out there in the Linux field, where they are, and how much you could make. Research the Internet and tell me what you find. I expect a little effort in this one - grading will be accordingly.

Median Salary by Job in the Linux field

When looking at great jobs for Linux, I found the following pay scales and percent of women to men.

Sr. Software Engineer/Developer/Programmer make an average of $79,791 - $112,357. There are only 10% women and 90% men in this field.

Sr. Unix System Administrator pays an average of $79,027 - $106,751. There are only 6% of women and 94% of men.

Systems Engineer pays an average of $49,779 - $78,548 and employs 8% of women and 92% of men

Information Technology Manager pays an average of $57,365 - $101,44 and employs 11% of women and 89% of men.

Software Engineer/Developer/Programmer pays an average of $52,622 - $79,799 and employs 12% of women and 88% men.

UNIX System Administrator pays an average of $51,601 - $79,884 and employs 10% of women and 90% of men.

Systems Administrator pays and average of $42,815 - $64,622 and employs 11% women and 89% of men.

In this day and age, I don't understand my so few women. I'm thinking that schooling takes so long that most women go for raising families or go to school for "nurturing" fields. I honestly feel this would be a great field to enter, but the schooling would stop me too. As a non-traditional student, its hard enough to work full time and get a minimal AA degree. Although for all the schooling and degrees I have collected, I could have finished a BS. That is if I'd have know about Linux in the past.

Info taken from http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Skill=Linux/Salary