Network Manager Pay

[MrDB]

36K

 

500 pc's, 10 servers, 400 student laptops, 50 staff laptops, web vle designer, 2 technicians.

 

Single status will start to make a difference in salaries, my job role has now changed to "ICT operations manager"

 

I would really expect NM to be around the 30k mark or they are doing a NM job on a technicians salary...

 

BSF will also cause problems i fell.....

[speckytecky]

I'm coming to this thread mightily late I know but thought it might be helpful to drop in the fact that the LEA will have a set of Job Descriptions linked to the various IT Posts in the Schools working under them.

 

I recently (fruitlessly) sought a review and was provided with 5 or so descriptions related to posts in other schools which they thought might compare with the job I think I do!

[oalcock]

I want to be a network manager one day, but sometimes I feel what is the point? As for the responsibilities you have as a Network Manager aren't "sometimes" worth the difference in pay. My m8 is a standard IT Technician in a straight forward school which has 1000 pupils on roll, and he is on £18,500. Edited April 20, 2010 by oalcock
added the word sometimes.

[localzuk]

I want to be a network manager one day, but sometimes I feel what is the point? As for the responsibilities you have as a Network Manager aren't "sometimes" worth the difference in pay. My m8 is a standard IT Technician in a straight forward school which has 1000 pupils on roll, and he is on £18,500.

 

This is one of the reasons I didn't apply for a job that was advertised at the college nearby. The site has triple the number of kids, PC's and responsibilities as my current position (network manager at a middle school), yet the pay they were offering was only £2k more than my current pay. It just seems awfully like people who don't know anything about the job are the ones determining what it is worth - which leads to poor pay levels.

[ChrisH]

There are many things to be wary of when thinking of being a network manager in schools these days BSF, equal pay reviews etc etc. While it may be good for experience there is beginning to be a very limited life span/acceptable wage on these jobs so it will end up being a high turnover role in schools.

[jpuk]

Sorry to bump this thread but I just can't imagine that any one would "network manage" for some of these figures. It blows my mind. Cost of living I've no doubt plays a big part though.

 

I wouldn't be able to eat and pay for a studio flat on some of these wages. Still...

 

A competent assistant manager should be on 23-25k and a network manager 30k and upwards. At the least.

Edited July 9, 2012 by jpuk

[twin--turbo]

Although I am being made redundant, my pay had been SO2 for about 6 years ( real cost going down due to no pay awards )

 

I built the school form 40pc's (10 admin on 10 Base2) 30 A4000's and 30 BBC'Bs.. to a 700 Client 11 server network over 10 years.. and over that time the £11,500 starting pay rose to the S02 pay.

 

The network now is vastly more complex, with many more systems to consider. But not only is pay still frozen but staff cuts mean I am out the door...

 

Rob

[jpuk]

Are you a teacher as well because surely no one with that level of skill would work for £11,500?

 

How could you even live on that. I'm really confused.

 

You'd earn more behind the checkouts at sainsburys.

[SimpleSi]

You'd earn more behind the checkouts at sainsburys.

 

You know, has anyone ever worked out what than actually is?

 

Si

[jpuk]

"what than actually is?"

 

Sorry, don't understand that.

[jpuk]

36 hours a week at £7 an hour is over £12k

 

£7 is what sainsburys pay 17 year olds when I was 17, 12 years ago.

 

You also have the opportunity of over time and double pay on Sundays.

Edited July 10, 2012 by jpuk

[tmcd35]

er, just read twin--turbo's post and it looks like some of us have missed out on the detail. He's been on SO2 for 6 years, started at £11,500 many years prior to that and worked his way up to SO2. I'm guessing £11,500 was good pay when he started and a hellava lot more than Sainsburys would have paid at the time?

 

Hell, he mentions 10Base2 and BBC Micro's - I'm guessing £11,500 was fantastic pay back then

Edited July 10, 2012 by tmcd35

[jpuk]

er, just read twin--turbo's post and it looks like some of us have missed out on the detail. He's been on SO2 for 6 years, started at £11,500 many years prior to that and worked his way up to SO2. I'm guessing £11,500 was good pay when he started and a hellava lot more than Sainsburys would have paid at the time?

 

Hell, he mentions 10Base2 and BBC Micro's - I'm guessing £11,500 was fantastic pay back then

 

Reading it again after a coffee I'm sure you're right.

 

There are people earlier in this thread talking about getting paid £13k though.

[SimpleSi]

"what than actually is?"

 

Replace the n in than with a t and it becomes clere

Si

Edited July 10, 2012 by SimpleSi

[tmcd35]

There are people earlier in this thread talking about getting paid £13k though.

 

For a NM 13k is disgusting but is about the entry level we pay our techs here. 15 years ago I thought £9k was great money for my first job, now I'm hard pushed to get out of bed for triple that...

[SimpleSi]

There's no common ground here- one schools NM is another schools tea-boy and vice versa

 

And no-way of comparing salaries between London and North-West of England

 

Some NMs are just glorified help-desk bods(not very many BTW) and some are highly skilled, IT experts with management skills and responsibilities and can be SMT members.

 

And then there's me of course

 

Si

[twin--turbo]

Yes £11,500ish in 1998. it was reasonable back then for the level of work I was doing.

 

If I had Certificates for everything I know now, I would be worth much more than SO2 ... But CDP ( no not Cisco Descovery Protocol ) although always stipulated in job evaluations never leads to worthwhile training and certification..

 

Rob