The Foote Partners 2006 salary survey found a predictable geographic pattern in storage administrators' salaries: Pay is highest in areas where large enterprises (and their massive storage needs) are concentrated and lowest where big companies are rare. The top five cities and regions are:
- 1. San Jose
- 2. San Francisco
- 3. New York
- 4. Lower Fairfield County, Conn./Westchester County, N.Y.
- 5. Los Angeles
The bottom four of the 63 cities named in the research are:
- 60. San Antonio
- 61. Nashville
- 62. Omaha
- 63. Oklahoma City
Base: More than 50,000 IT workers in the U.S. and Canada
Source: Foote Partners LLC, January 2006
Storage: New Wrinkles 2006
Stories in this report:
- New Wrinkles in Storage
- Storage Package Overview
- Backing Up the Virtual Machine
- Sidebar: How Many Licenses?
- Battle of the Bulge
- Sidebar: Provisioning Pretender
- Sidebar: Thin Provisioning Explained
- Cruising Over Copper
- DIY Recovery
- Sidebar: A Comeback for Managed Storage Services?
- Data Points: Storage
- Safe and Sound
- Sidebar: How Long Will It Be Safe?
- Sidebar: Have a Key-Recovery Plan
- Sidebar: Encryption Decrypted
- Storage-free Zone
- The Storage Specialty
- Sidebar: Resume Gold
- Sidebar: Big Cities, Big Bucks
- Virtual Tape