Current Events > Admin jobs only make $17 or $18 an hour? Can't they do better than that?

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My wifes friend is an admin at a tech company for 10 years now and they only now raised her to $18/hr. I think shes getting ripped off for someone who has been there for 10 years

She cant go somewhere that can pay her top dollar? At least find a job that pays $25-30/hr for gods sake.

Is that really the market for an admin with no college degree like her? I dont see why she cant go on Indeed or any job search site and look for the big bucks there

I'm a lowly IT tech support technician, but I make $23/hr. I don't have a college degree, either.

I thought you had life all figured out already.

VeggetaX posted...

I thought you had life all figured out already.

Admin is not my industry

I just assumed they get paid big money since office jobs pay

I'm sure you already know that not all office jobs pay great money.

VeggetaX posted...

I'm sure you already know that not all office jobs pay great money.

The interns at my other job get paid $23/hour

I assumed admins get taken care of too

Why should operating a copy machine pay a lot? I. Ysed to work an admin job I barely even needed any skills and I didnt expect high pay

thx1138 posted...

Why should operating a copy machine pay a lot? I. Ysed to work an admin job I barely even needed any skills and I didnt expect high pay

The thing is, im sure there are admin jobs out there that pay more than $18/hr if even our interns are getting $23

People gotta know their worth

Is this friend an admin, as in a secretary or an actual admin of a team?

It's as simple as she's being lowballed or that's all the company can afford. But you knew that.

BakiHanma462 posted...

Is this friend an admin, as in a secretary or an actual admin of a team?

I think admin as in secretary

Lots of people are too afraid or lazy to get higher pay in their career

me, I'm too lazy

We got pharmacy technicians here making $30/hour

^that is absolutely insane. I finished Pharm Tech classes a while back but I never worked the job because the pay is so low. I was only offered $16/hr

AzNDarkSamurai posted...

^that is absolutely insane. I finished Pharm Tech classes a while back but I never worked the job because the pay is so low. I was only offered $16/hr

Yeah you start low and get a raise every year and every time you're re-certified. You work for the company 10 years and it's nothing.

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very likely through connections and networking because getting it any other way is extremely hard

Its hard for me to think of any decent job that doesnt require connections or networking

My local Walmart starts at $18/hr.

I work from home, make 28.20 an hour, and about to possibly, depending on a meeting Wednesday, might be getting another raise. Holidays are not 1.5x pay though. They are 2x pay.

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@ImAMarvel

TC is probably right in that networking and connections played a part, but I feel I need to expand upon it, because I didn't start out at my current pay.

I first got into my organization in 2011 right after graduating from the trade school I went to; they must have sent my info to a contracting firm, because I didn't apply for any of it. I was brought in for a PC refresh project at $12. After that, I was kept onboard for call center stuff with occasional project and bumped up to $14. They let me go in 2014.

However, in 2016, I emailed them to use them as a reference for another job I was about to interview for (and would have paid more than I am getting now), and I guess it was good timing, because while I didn't get that other job, my organization asked if I wanted to come back. I did, under a different contracting firm than before who bumped me up to $18, which then got to $20 not long after. Then, I moved from the call center position to a more direct deskside support role in 2018, but only just recently got my pay bumped to $23.

So yeah, while it was probably connections--especially seeing as at no point was I ever interviewed for this job--I still had to play a long game to get to the payrate that I'm at now.

All the internships I was offered this year payed $26 or $27 an hour, it is Atlanta though so things are a little pricy.

Alteres posted...

All the internships I was offered this year payed $26 or $27 an hour, it is Atlanta though so things are a little pricy.

see?

this is the bay area so her pay should definitely be higher than that

i WAS LOOKING FOR JOBS THE OTHER DAY, AND i SAW THAT A JUVENILE PROBATION OFFICER MAKES JUST A LITTLE OVER $19 AN HOUR. i'M LIKE WHAT THE FUCK

Edit: ^^^ had caps on by acccident, not retyping.

is it wfh?

MedeaLysistrata posted...

is it wfh?

no she goes into the office

I just got a job as a janitor/repairman making 24 dollars an hour.

RenescoStCewl posted...

I just got a job as a janitor/repairman making 24 dollars an hour.

Not surprised. Thats market rate.

I know this because my family has a lot of workers in the janitorial field

That's an entire dollar more than what they pay the Walmart shelf stockers here

Im shocked Walmart even pays that much

AzNDarkSamurai posted...

Admin is not my industry

I just assumed they get paid big money since office jobs pay

Admins? No.
Maybe only admins for C suite execs. But those generally require a degree.

ReDaZnDraGoN97 posted...

Im shocked Walmart even pays that much

Thats what one sales associate told me (I used to work with him somewhere else and ran into him there). Its probably not every state, though. My city is so expensive that its honestly nowhere close to enough to even rent a studio apartment and pay your bills. For $18/hr here, youd better be okay with roommates. Then again, it seems like almost everywhere is like this now. I think you need something like $36/hr to stay out of the red and live by yourself here, which makes things tough.

^sounds about right for where I live too

She's being low balled, but it's also doesn't require technical (and in demand skills), nor requires a degree.

I've done data entry before. It pays shit. Anyone can learn to type in data in a computer pretty fast and scan stuff. But it's monotonous and will get mostly replaced by machines

^I thought Gfaqs mods are ballers?

that's on the low end here, but thats CAD, so like $12.75 - $13.50 range, which i guess is extremely low.

$22.50 - $24 is actually pretty good for an admin job. They're usually $19 - 21 CAD, or, $14.50 - 16 USD