Li, That college north of me put $36K on the table and then upped it to $46K which was "as high as they could go since this was NH not Mass". Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA -----Original Message----- From: Li Li [mailto:litanli@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 11:40 PM To: gurenich@xxxxxxxxx Cc: DonGranaman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Goulet, Richard; David Pintor; Dubovecky, Jeff; dackoc@xxxxxxxxx; jpiwowar@xxxxxxxxx; cboyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; kp0773@xxxxxxxxx; Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: DBA pay in university Let me share some real numbers since nobody gave one. I work in a public university in the mid-west US, a mid-class neighborhood house of 2000 square feet would be about $200K so you all know the cost of living here. DBA salary in my university would range from 60K to 100K, depends on your experience and if you have any management duties such as team lead, etc. Plus this, you get 10 holidays, and 27 to 33 days of vacation/sick time (these 2 are not separated). Retirement plans include pension and one additional defined contribution plan. There are also some discounted tuition available for the employee but not much for direct family member. Work environment is mostly relaxed, but could also be stressful depends on what project you are working on and what kind of people you have to deal with. In situations that affected production systems, you could work overnight with no sleep. Now if anyone can share their numbers from the industry area, that would be great! :-) so that I know how much I under-sold myself... :) -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l