Author Topic: Are this wages normal? (Read 631 times)

Boroda · « **on:** June 28, 2004, 01:19:12 PM »

Are such wages common in American IT industry?

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/77/342948

I read it in Russian newsgroup. A person who posted it said offered wages are 3-5 times more then usual.

I wonder did they get enough volunteers?...

AKWeav · « **Reply #1 on:** June 28, 2004, 01:21:16 PM »

Only if there's a chance of getting your head sawed off by some maniac.

Boroda · « **Reply #2 on:** June 28, 2004, 01:22:24 PM »

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Originally posted by AKWeav
Only if there's a chance of getting your head sawed off by some maniac.

Please check the date the offer was issued.

Pongo · « **Reply #3 on:** June 28, 2004, 01:23:59 PM »

1000 US per day. No thats alot of money even for a systems expert.

You realize that means the contract vendor(haliburton) is probably billing the goverment 2000 per day for those postitions?

Mini D · « **Reply #4 on:** June 28, 2004, 01:24:23 PM »

How much money would it take for you to go work in Iraq today? Hell... even 6 months ago? The "rebels" were killing engineers from the get-go.

"hazardous duty" does not even begin to cover it.

ravells · « **Reply #5 on:** June 28, 2004, 04:46:18 PM »

A US SECRET clearance IS REQUIRED for ALL positions listed below.
Incumbents must also be able to obtain a US Top Secret clearance.
PLEASE DO NOT APPLY WITHOUT A MINIMUM US SECRET Clearance. YOU MUST
include the statement at the top of any Resume / CV submission OR as
the 1st line in your cover letter:
"I have a CURRENT and VALID Secret or Top Secret US Clearance.

Um...Boroda, I don't think you're going to get the job.

Ravs

Boroda · « **Reply #6 on:** June 29, 2004, 07:55:26 AM »

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Originally posted by ravells
A US SECRET clearance IS REQUIRED for ALL positions listed below.
Incumbents must also be able to obtain a US Top Secret clearance.
PLEASE DO NOT APPLY WITHOUT A MINIMUM US SECRET Clearance. YOU MUST
include the statement at the top of any Resume / CV submission OR as
the 1st line in your cover letter:
"I have a CURRENT and VALID Secret or Top Secret US Clearance.

Um...Boroda, I don't think you're going to get the job.

Ravs

I doubt I'll apply

Only Soviet "Form 3" classified materials access here. And I try my best to avoid any classified materials of any kind.

Does secret clearance add significant sums to your wages in the US?

Mickey1992 · « **Reply #7 on:** June 29, 2004, 08:08:30 AM »

Considering the experience they are looking for, US$800-$1200 a day is not unreasonable.

rabbidrabbit · « **Reply #8 on:** June 29, 2004, 09:29:54 AM »

beyond the secret clearance I would be qualified.. wonder if "Used to have a secret clearance " would count?

Monk · « **Reply #9 on:** June 29, 2004, 11:44:15 AM »

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Originally posted by Boroda
I doubt I'll apply Only Soviet "Form 3" classified materials access here. And I try my best to avoid any classified materials of any kind.

Does secret clearance add significant sums to your wages in the US?

Need to be a US Cit to receive a clearance, and no there is not a big wage increase with a clearance.

crowMAW · « **Reply #10 on:** June 29, 2004, 09:27:53 PM »

A buddy of mine, who I fly with on weekends, just retired from US Customs and took a job with a "private" company to fly a "modified" Dash-7 (probably a "private" RC-7) in a middle eastern country (he would not be more specific). His salary for the next year...$11,500/week.

hawker238 · « **Reply #11 on:** June 29, 2004, 09:44:57 PM »

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Originally posted by crowMAW
A buddy of mine, who I fly with on weekends, just retired from US Customs and took a job with a "private" company to fly a "modified" Dash-7 (probably a "private" RC-7) in a middle eastern country (he would not be more specific). His salary for the next year...$11,500/week.

Bodhi · « **Reply #12 on:** June 29, 2004, 09:45:43 PM »

I turned down a position 3 months a go to work on heli's in Iraq. Position compensation was $42,500 a month....

Last person to occupy the position is on the missing rolls from the scuttlebut.

AWMac · « **Reply #13 on:** June 29, 2004, 10:45:04 PM »

TS/SBI with SCI Access... But a Clearance isn't worth dieing for.

Keep the money.

Airhead · « **Reply #14 on:** June 29, 2004, 11:14:21 PM »

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Originally posted by Boroda
I doubt I'll apply Only Soviet "Form 3" classified materials access here. And I try my best to avoid any classified materials of any kind.

Does secret clearance add significant sums to your wages in the US?

No, secret clearances add little to ones' salary. Also we don't try to avoid classified information; indeed, we seek it out and expose it. Basically the difference in our two systems of Government is that in the (former) Soviet Union, and every Nation like it, the people fear their Government; in America our Government fears us.

An example is what happened to me a couple of weeks ago. I was at a Community Events party and ran into my State Legislator behind the scenes as she was enjoying a private moment with a cigarette.

Her political personna is anti-tobacco, and she asked I keep her "getting caught" private.

Had I been a Soviet citizen, and had I seen a party member engaging in something that might discredit them, I would never be "asked" to keep quiet; indeed, the KGB would show up at my two room State owned cement block apartment I was sharing with my parents, three siblings, five children and eighteen nieces and nephews and drag us all into the woods where we would be shot and buried in a shallow grave.

Seriously, I don't blame you for avoiding classified information. In your position I would too.