What is the average salary of a person working with CCIE qualification?

Question

i heard it was $80 - $200 dollars per hour. but im not sure. any ideas??

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Answer 2

I live in the midwest United States and have been a CCIE for about six years now.

Generally the average "salary" is about $100k, at a job where you work there regularly and with limited travel.

If you want to be a "network ninja", a headhunter firm would be delighted to pay you between $100 - $150 an hour to fly around non-stop to work on networks.

If you were looking for $200 an hour, you would have to have significant of experience in network technologies other than Cisco, and a very impressive set of credentials and references to prove them.  Or be very very lucky.

There was a time when I considered taking a $150 an hour job that involved extensive travel for six months, and then taking the other six months off, but the temptation to be somewhat relaxed in keeping my knowledge up to date would have been too great during my six months off.  

I also have been offered the equivalent of $200k to work for just a few months in Dubai, but I needed to be fluent in Arabic, which I am not.  All expenses would have been paid and housing provided as well.

So, if you are looking for the money, you have to be willing to get up and go somewhere.  If you are looking for good money at a steady job, then the numbers you are asking about are generally not available.

I should also stress that the workload for a CCIE can be very great, and there is significant stress involved.  You are considered to be the go-to answer person, and expected to either have the solution or the capability to get the answers on short notice.  When the system is down, people are not paying you to wait on hold while you open a trouble ticket.  They can do that themselves.  You will also very likely be expected to handle non-cisco related tasks, such as Windows networking or Linux.  If you do not have those skill sets as a CCIE, then your prospects are limited even further.  It's not enough to be a CCIE because of the expectations people have of someone with such a certification--you have to be a master of one, and very good at the rest.