Salary Overview for System Administrators Part 2 (Windows & * nix)
For those who read our blog for the first time, I’ll clarify that we are an IT-Dominant recruiting company .

The following posts are reviewed in this Review:
- Junior System Administrator (Windows or * nix)
- Windows System Administrator
- Leading System Administrator, Windows
- OS system administrator * nix
- Lead System Administrator OS * nix
Let me remind you that in our previous posts we already talked about the salaries of the "Mobile" developers , Designers , Project managers for software development , WEB programmers and Java / C ++ / C # / Delphi programmers .
Study Parameters
Objects of study: vacancies;
Cities under study: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod. The cities of Kiev and Minsk in our reports will appear only next year.
Sources: hh.ru , SuperJob.ru , ITmozg.ru , Job.ru , Rabota.ru , rabota66 (only for Yekaterinburg), Rabota NGS (only for Novosibirsk),
Study period: from 01/06/2012 to 08/30/2012
Detailed information (full catalog of posts and cost) in the presentation
Research Methodology
Collect salary information from Job portals. We collect salary data indicated in the vacancies and resumes and put them in our directory of posts in accordance with the name of the vacancy / resume. If the title of the vacancy / resume is too general or inaccurate (for example: “System Administrator”), then having studied the description of the vacancy / resume, we select it for a specific position on the basis of expert evaluation.
In this post we use only data obtained from vacancies .
We invite IT companies to participate in our study.
In addition to researching the salary data indicated on Job portals, in St. Petersburg and Moscow we conduct a company survey once a year . This is a large study, in which we study not only real wages in the labor market, but the components of the social package, various types of compensations, staff turnover, costs, providers and much more.
We invite IT companies in Moscow and St. Petersburg to join our research! The preliminary start date for the “company survey” is November 03, 2012. For questions about participating in this study, please contact me (Denis Kalanov) More in the presentation .
Glossary
10 percentile - statistical minimum
Median (50 percentile) - average market salary
90 percentile - statistical maximum
Nth (10th, 50th, 90th) percentile - a value per 1 / n of the distance from the beginning of the ordered variation series . That is, the nth percentile shows that n% of the values of the ranked series have values lower than the nth percentile, and (100-n)% are large.
Junior System Administrator

Windows System Administrator

Leading System Administrator, Windows

OS system administrator * nix

Lead System Administrator OS * nix

City distribution chart
For this distribution, we took the most popular vacancy, “Windows System Administrator,” and we have traditionally built the graph below by median.

Job Distribution Schedule
For the reference city we take Moscow and on the median we build the schedule for the distribution of salaries by position. Actually, this graph confirms the rumors that administrators of * nix systems get more than windows.
