Like everyone else, I'm going to say, "It depends..."

It depends first and foremost on the living cost of the area he will
work in.

Sure, someone in silicon valley can command a salary doing what I do
that's nearly twice what I get.  He also has to pay twice as much in
taxes, home, and many other items that are less expensive here.

It depends almost as much on his level of
experience/education/training.  Will he walk into the job and be able to
do everything asked of him 100% without any training and very little
guidance, or is there going to be a learning curve?

It lastly depends on how much people are typcially paid in that position
in that area.  If they can get someone else locally to do his job for
5,000/year cheaper, even if that person is a little less experienced,
you bet they will.

Since you didn't give an adequate job description, it's going to be even
harder for those people who know the area to help.

Is he working alone for a small company?  Is he part of a large IT
group?  How many servers/users is he going to be in charge of?  What
type of applications are the servers and users running?  Is he expected
to do maintenance only, or development?  Will he be responsible for
decision making, proposals, upgrades, etc?  Or is he the grunt labor
under the IT guys and simply acts as gopher?

With a moderate amount of experience (working for my father's consulting
business for several years during HS) and some unique opportunities I
had a job awhile ago installing and setting up corporate PCs.  I was
paid $25,000/year doing so.  After three months I left to work for a
small company (closer location) doing programming work and pretty much
managing their network, server, internet, etc.  At the start I was at
$27k, and progressed to $32k when I was laid off, did two months of
VB/Access consulting ($25/Hr, no benefits) and then started my current
position as the sole IT guy in a management company, making sure the
corporate machines/servers are doing well, developing new software and
database information systems, and maintaining hardware out in various
business ventures.

Perhaps my experience matches your friend's well, and this will give you
a very general idea of his worth.  As a side note, I never pushed hard
for high salaries.  I assume I got several jobs becuase I was not high
priced.  I always asked for what I thought was fair for both parties,
and would support my family.

However, I always knew beforehand the general range the company was
looking to pay for a given position.  It seems strange to me that your
friend doesn't have any idea what they are thinking of.

-Adam

Tal wrote:

>Hi
>
>I've been asked by a friend about the salary he should ask for a job
>overseas.
>the job is for one year (can be extended) in other country, the company who
>want to hire him demand that vacations will be only one time each year. job
>title is a sys admin (maintain windows servers, end user installations,
>backups etc...)
>he doesn't know other details yet...
>what do you think is the right salary amount for a month?
>
>Regards
>
>Tal
>
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