Originally Posted by Austin
A good networking person, system admin, or DBA with 5 solid years of experience can make 100K pretty easily. People with 10+ years make 250K pretty easily. Or, you can get an MBA and enter the managment ranks and make 500K or more after 10-15 years. There is still no way out of 60 hour weeks and you may not like where you end up.

I work in IT, and yeah, you can get to 100K with 5 years' experience, depending on the local market. In places where there's a high cost of living, that's certainly attainable.

But 250K with 10 years' experience? No.

500K as a manager? No.

60 hour work weeks? Possibly, at times. It depends on whether you're working on a time-sensitive project, or if you're doing consulting. Otherwise, if you're consistently working 60-hour weeks, you're not doing it right.