Poll......What did your first salary pay in I.T

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Hiya

im hoping to get my first job in entry level I.T support very soon.

I'd like to start a poll on what your salary was when you got your first job in I.T ?



Also i would like to add - What qualification did you have when you had your first job ?

 

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Not much, £13,000 a year after three months probation (£11,000 during probation).
You have to start at the bottom though, did that for 18 months then moved away from the first line call centre into a proper second/third line support role. I really enjoy IT, it's not just about the money for me.

 

Well I am not in a proper IT job (not by title anyway) but when I started doing IT stuff like configuring the servers and doing fail over procedures, killing of processes and hoping things work I was on 15k, I am on nearly 20k now.

My job is mainly manual/semi skilled but becoming more skilled by the day.

 

How did you get this job, did you already have your A+ when you applied ?

This is the route i would like to take as i prefer manual skilled work

 

my first salary was £16k building custom pcs, servers and cluster nodes

GRim

 

Cheers guys, interesting stuff.

I added a little bit more, i just wanted to ask what qualifications you had when you had your first job..

I semising the majority of people will say A+

 

My 1st was 14K a year. Rolling out PC's and printers for a huge organisation, imaging them and the like. We would support them for the 1st 2 weeks then the support team would take responsibility for support after that. I had an HNC incomputing and was working on my A+ but although i was working in another job when i 1st started working there as on my days off i went in on a voluntery basis to get experience and that more than the qualifications got me the post i think.

 

I was ready for my A+ when I went for the interview, passed the exams a few weeks later (before I started the job).

 

I got this job because I was an unlucky **** and couldn't get aproper IT job and had spiraling debts which needed to be paid. I started on £9550 a year and for 4 years it was purely manual, heavy lifting and running around like a blue arsed fly.

After 4 years of gradual exposure to the system I was basically doing things better than my manager and the other guy. I had all my qualifications when I started this job in 2000 but not the A+.

 

I started on £10,500 7 years ago.

NB

 

I started at 18k supporting a small housing association. I didnt have any quals when i went in, but they were aware that i was working towards various things. I started there straight from college doing computer engineering.

 

I'm still in my first job (£10,000 anually and £9,000 during 3 month probation). Money is low but I get to work on servers remotely and work closely with the second line and third line engineers. So the experience is pretty good.

 

I started on 15.5k and am now on just over 16k (my first and current job)
1st / 2nd Line I.T Technician in the Midlands.

My (Academic Qualifications) moved from bog standars GCSE -> A LEVEL -> Computer Science BSc Degree
Also got C&G Level 2 & 3 NVQ's IT Practioner / Professional (Vocational Qualifications)

FatP

 

Well it was 10 years ago for me and I was self employed but from what I can remember the net profit in the first you would have put me in the middle category

 

I didn't have any certifications when I started my first job in a small PC Sales/Repair shop but they were aware I was working towards A+ and N+. First salary was £14k.

 

First salary was 16K which I was very pleased about and I'd just passed my A+ when I got it. A year later I have my MCDST and am earning 24K doing product support in a different job....