My highest paying IT job (I have no degree) paid $125 an hour.
A degree helps, but once you hit 30, a lot of employers are more interested in what you’ve done with what education you have, not what shingles you can decorate your office wall with.
Yeah, but aren’t rates down considerably? All the guys I know who used to get that rate are now struggling to get $80 or $90 an hour.
I’ll second that. I’m a network geek (routing/switching, firewall, wireless), and while I’ve had training classes, I’ve also never attended college. I’m not at 6 figures, yet, but will be within 5 years (pending the end of the Obama administration)