Network manager salary poll...

[andyase]

Hello All

This is my first post to this forum although I look in on a regular basis.

I am a network manager in a secondary school, 900 pupils 100+ staff, 350 pc' laptops etc, 6 servers, 2 tech staff.

I have been the nm for 6 years, after moving here from commercial world computing (12 years) where I was a senior engneer with a big Euro company. I took a 50% pay cut to take this job due to health issues (not complaining). Now with the pressing issue of single status (still not implemented in Derbyshire) I wanted to get an idea of SS pay for techs and nm's, so I decided to do a poll on pay and thought this would be a good place to do it...

I hope this will be of interest to everyone.

[edit]
This is just for "School Ict network managers"

[ChrisH]

You may find what you are looking for if you search around a bit. This kind of topic comes back round again every time there is a job advert etc. The range does vary a lot but it has got better in the last few years.

[IanT]

Cant remember what scale im on but I get paid a Network Managers wage.......

[Soulfish]

Personally I'm on Scale 10 of our single status pay scale which on the NJC scales is SO2

[steveg]

I'm on single status but the pay scales dont relate to any on the poll, I assume they are different in each county?

Steve

[EduTech]

My Boss is on SO2 i believe

James.

[krisd32]

I'm on scale 5 at the moment i think.

[sippo]

Don't the pay scales vary to each council?

[andyase]

Judging by the comments so far pay scales differ dependent upon area, I will have to run another poll tommorow for pay not scales, think this will be a lot more accurate and of interest to everyone..

[timzim]

2009 NJC payscales here - might help people fit their pay to a point on the scale.

However, sorry to dribble in your cup of tea, but what is the point of such a vague poll? And what about PO on your poll or did you assume every NM's paid peanuts? PO goes from PO1 to PO9 - a huge range of potential salaries, from £28k to £57k...

Also, since the title "network manager" encompasses a whole plethora of different job descriptions in schools, the salaries may not be comparable as the job spec for each will probably be very different.

You'd be better off running a poll on who's got the longest arms.

[andyase]

Thanks for the payscale thats similar to ours.
Sorry for the vague poll but what can you put in one title and 10 responses, and I dont think many nm's will be on the P scale, unless they are in London or the south east of course...Network managers do have different job descriptions, however this is just a "vague" poll. And seeing as your a chimp you must have the longest arms.

[timzim]

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...seeing as your a chimp you must have the longest arms.

Drat, you've seen through my cunning plan...

[maniac]

As we're an independant school, our pay scale varys totally from that.

I've no idea what scale I'm on, I just know the figure. I think it's a fair wage for my job.

Mike

[dalsoth]

Why not just put a poll on with pay ranges then such as 15 to 20k, 20k to 25k, 25k to 30k etc.. Those scales mean nothing to me as i don't have the foggiest idea of the scale I am because other areas use different figures depending on the county.

[IanT]

Very true, them scales above mean nothing to me lol