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To all Network Administrators....... Looking at a career in this field and looking for some answers.

1. What are the hiring prospects in this field?

2. What kind of training (credendials) would you expect your next employee to have?

3. How much experience is required?

4. What are the starting wages?

If you don't mind to talk about your job.               Thanks

1. What are the hiring prospects in this field?



http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos268.htm

im not completely sure what you mean by hiring prospects, but that page has a lot of statistical information about the field towards the bottom, like an 18% growth from 2006-2016



2. What kind of training (credendials) would you expect your next employee to have?

 

here is just a few. the A+ and Network + Are practically a given, CCNA would be good, as well as a few others, just use google and look up network administrator certificates

A+ Certificate

Network + Certificate

CCNA - Cisco Certified Network Administrator

MCSE - Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer

MCP- Microsoft Certified Professional

MCNA - Microsoft Certified Network Administrator







3. How much experience is required?

ive seen someone network admins with as little as 4 years working in a data center environment.

ive also seen others with 30, it just depends on what your employer is looking for



4. What are the starting wages?

whatever the employer is wanting to pay, usually its 40k plus if your new, 70-120k+ if your experienced with 10+ years 

dont quote me verbatim though, employers are paying shit right now so i could be wrong with these numbers