Hiring Web Administrators

What to Expect

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Via O*Net: Web administrators back up or modify applications and related data to provide for disaster recovery, determine sources of web page or server problems, and take action to correct such problems, review or update web page content or links in a timely manner using appropriate tools, and monitor systems for intrusions or denial of service attacks.

They also report security breaches to appropriate personnel, implement web site security measures, such as firewalls or message encryption.

What to Pay

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The web administrator with an impressive portfolio of work should earn about $37.02 an hour¹.  That’s an hourly savings of $11.21 compared to the web administrator who is hired as a full-time employee with benefits².

¹Based on estimates for this occupation (via O*Net.)
²Based on a total compensation cost of 30.3% (via EBRI.)

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