Question : network administrator salary

I was hoping someone might give me some ideas on what my salary should be as a network administrator.

I only have 6 months experience as a network administrator but probably another 2 years fooling around with networking and administering computers at home and at work on my spare time. I have been using a computer to pay my bills one way or another for the last 6 years and have been using computers in general for allot longer than that. I am young lets just say that I'm in my mid to late twenties. I take care of 65 networked computers and another 15 that are not networked. I also take care of 4 servers 1 of which is a exchange server, 2 wireless networks (I set these WLAN's up), 10 printers, fax machines, 1 firewall with VPN clients (I also set this up). This has been a very exhausting task for me not to mention all of the security holes I had to plug. I have never done this kind of work before. I have no education or certifications in the field. I am the only person in the entire IT department. We have about 130 employees.

I looked up my salary at www.salary.com for my location and title as a
network administrator and this is what it says.
25th%ile $49,243
Median $55,882
75th%ile $65,732

Thanks for any advise

Answer : network administrator salary

First are you happy with what you are making?  If you are then I wouldn't worry about it.  If not and you think you deserve more then use the tables as a guide.  Depending on your education / certification and experience you could well be worth more or less.  

Take two individuals one with a MCSE and CNE designation but no 'Practical experience' on either system versus someone with no designation but 10 years of experience on both systems including integration and migrations in both directions.  Who is more valuable to a company?  Most HR departments and IT managers would agree the person with the experience would be worth more on a dollar value as it is hard to eliminate the practical experience component.

Given what you have told us from your 'Resume' I would take a guess 35K plus training incentives, certification incentives and possibly a bonus system would be reasonable.  If the company would prefer to give a straight cash value and let you look after training yourself then 45K plus would be a reasonable figure.