Working Today? Take a Break to Fill Out the Annual Salary Survey.
Working today? You’re not alone. As a small business person, I tend to find myself working on emails, catching up with stuff on quiet days like today.
Let’s take a second for your professional development though. Every year, I run a salary survey to help folks have better discussions with their managers about salaries, benefits, and career progression.
The anonymous survey closes Sunday, January 12th. On Tuesday the 14th, I’ll publish the overall responses on the blog in Excel format so you can do slicing & dicing. The results are completely open source, and shared with the community for your analysis. You can analyze ’em now mid-flight – do not email me asking for edit permissions, buddy – but I’d wait until the final results come in. I’ll combine them into a single spreadsheet with the past results, and publish those here.
Thanks for your help in giving everybody in the community a better chance to talk honestly with their managers about salary.
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Last year average was 137K for SQL Server DBA, this year probably will be higher… Should I restrain myself from participating, so not to lower the number with my 130K ? 😀
Brent, there’s an inconsistency here: your blog says “The anonymous survey closes Sunday, January 12th. On Tuesday the 14th, I’ll publish the overall responses on the blog in Excel format so you can do slicing & dicing.” But I just completed the survey and there’s a message stating “Your response has been recorded. The full data will be published on BrentOzar.com on January 4.” Thought you’d want to know. (I completed the survey on 20250106.)