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TCPmag.com's 2004 Cisco Professional Salary Survey

The Cisco Certified Network Associate indicates an understanding of networking for the small office/home office market. CCNAs are certified to install, configure, and operate LAN, WAN, and dial access services for small networks (100 nodes or fewer) and have a working familiarity with these protocols: IP, IGRP, Serial, Frame Relay, IP RIP, VLANs, RIP, Ethernet and Access Lists.

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Salaries by region
�	Average	West	Midwest	South	Northeast
CCNA	$60,000	$59,572	$63,308	$56,591	$63,433

Salaries by experience
Up to 1 year	$33,954
1 year up to 2	$37,500
2 years up to 3	$47,819
3 years up to 5	$59,423
5 years up to 10	$62,063
10 or more years	$72,713

Average amount of monetary bonus expected this year, as reported by the 54 percent of CCNA respondents who said they will probably receive a bonus: $4,715

Salaries decreased for 6 percent of respondents by a median of $10,185.

Salaries increased for 61 percent of respondents by a median of $4,875.

33 percent of respondents reported no change in salary in the last 12 months.

The average CCNA has been certified for 1.9 years. He or she has an average of 6.2 years of experience in networking and/or internetworking.

The most common job titles held by CCNAs include these:
Network (support) engineer	19.9%
Systems administrator	13.3%
Senior network engineer	11.2%
Network operations	6.6%
Consulting systems engineer	6.2%
Systems engineer	5.8%
Trainer	5.8%
Management (supervisory)	5.0%
IT engineer	4.6%

Aside from the Cisco title, here are the typical top credentials CCNAs also hold:

Microsoft certifications:
MCP (Windows 2000)	39%
MCSE (All others)	37%
MCP (All others)	30%
MCSE (Windows 2000)	29%
MCSA (Windows 2000)	12%

Other certifications:
CompTIA A+	31%
Novell CNA	17%
CompTIA Network+	15%
Novell CNE	10%
Citrix CCA	5%
Other	5%
Dell (any certification)	4%

These are the certifications that CCNAs report they expect to attain in the next 12 months:

Cisco certifications:
CCNP	59%
CCDA	17%
CCSP	12%
CCDP	7%
Cisco Firewall Specialist	7%
Cisco VPN Specialist	6%
CCNA	6%
Cisco Wireless LAN Support Specialist	5%

Microsoft certifications:
MCSE (Windows Server 2003)	26%
MCP (Windows Server 2003)	22%
MCSA (Windows Server 2003)	12%
MCSE (Windows 2000)	10%
MCSA (Windows 2000)	9%
MCP (Windows 2000)	8%
MCDBA	5%

Other certifications:
CompTIA Security+	13%
ISC(2) CISSP	6%
CompTIA Network+	5%
CompTIA Linux+	4%
Red Hat RHCE	4%

Where Is Your Region?

West includes: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.

Midwest includes: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin

South includes: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and West Virginia

Northeast includes Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont

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