[SBE] Pay scale

[Jeff Carter]

The CE of a PBS TV Station in GA starts around $45K.  Someone
literally has to die for those jobs to become available, however, and
they generally hire from existing engineers who make around $25K to
start.  You can sit there making $25K for twenty years while you wait
for the appropriate death to occur, and then you compete against
everyone else.  By way of comparison, a NOC engineer with a Bachelor's
and no experience starts at $40K here (this person has no more
knowledge of IT than a broadcast engineer is expected to have).

I am not aware of any CE in GA who makes six figures, although there
are contract folks who seem to do pretty well.

Jeff/KD4RBG

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:14 AM,  <russ at russvanderhorst.info> wrote:

> Hi All,

>

> Refering to the story I read and mentioned on CNN and the homeless person who got into

> television with no training and questionable character because he has been in prison and

> homeless (even though we don't know his exact circumstances)...leads me to a question

> (and I am not asking for specific information from anyone as that is of course of a personal

> nature)...but typically, what kind of pay scale can a broadcast engineer expect to make. I

> understand this is going to vary with contract work, years of experience, type of work you

> specifically do, etc...but typically I am curious as to what the average broadcast technician

> takes home weekly/yearly, etc.

>

> Thanks,

>

> Russ

>

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> http://russvanderhorst.info

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