I need to find out about salary for SAP support analyst

grundy · Post by **grundy** » Wed Jul 10, 2002 12:54 pm

I'm interviewing for a SAP support analyst position, and am having trouble finding anything about salary for this position. Kno anything about SAP or know about the salary range? anywhere to look besides salary.com?

anybody in your company do this kind of work? can you ask around for me? seriously, I just had a phone interview and it went well, but they asked about salary expectations and I had to pull a number out of thin air. I've never had to negotiate a salary before, so I need some ammunition here.

this is in San Francisco.

SavageHrt · Post by **SavageHrt** » Wed Jul 10, 2002 1:13 pm

Go to [url=http://]salary.monster.com/[/url] . You should get your answer there.

Sav

Noevo · Post by **Noevo** » Wed Jul 10, 2002 2:13 pm

Whether you have a degree or not may make a big difference, depends on the company. But in San Fransisco salaries should be a little higher than "average" anyway. Tough to tell salaries in IT from one company to another. Size of the company, level of the job (this can be different at every company), bonuses, all that jazz. Depending on experience you have too. I swear I have seen SAP support everywhere between $30,000 and $80,000 a year.

Tough call. sorry.

grundy · Post by **grundy** » Wed Jul 10, 2002 2:50 pm

well, thanks for the try Noevo. I've never negotiated a salary before. Hopefully I will get the opportunity to do so soon... just wish I had more information at my disposal.

Noevo · Post by **Noevo** » Wed Jul 10, 2002 2:57 pm

Originally posted by grundy
well, thanks for the try Noevo. I've never negotiated a salary before. Hopefully I will get the opportunity to do so soon... just wish I had more information at my disposal.

Biggest thing, don't lowball yourself. More than likely you will ask for more than they are going to pay you, expect it at least. But they need to know you are flexible as well. That way if you tell them something higher than they are thinking they know it isn't a "take it or leave it" proposition. You don't want to negotiate yourself out of a potential job.

What ya got? experience, education, currently employed? tell me if you want and I can give an idea of our IT dept. range for you, not SAP but I can figure that in I think

PM me if you want.

Scum333 · Post by **Scum333** » Wed Jul 10, 2002 6:27 pm

i thought SAP people were grody to the mouth.

like the lowest of the low in the tech world..

grundy · Post by **grundy** » Wed Jul 10, 2002 8:11 pm

Originally posted by Noevo

Biggest thing, don't lowball yourself. More than likely you will ask for more than they are going to pay you, expect it at least. But they need to know you are flexible as well. That way if you tell them something higher than they are thinking they know it isn't a "take it or leave it" proposition. You don't want to negotiate yourself out of a potential job.

What ya got? experience, education, currently employed? tell me if you want and I can give an idea of our IT dept. range for you, not SAP but I can figure that in I think PM me if you want.

education: BA with honors from a UC. Not technical.

some IT training, including several Oracle courses, SQL, UNIX, javascript, HTML. About one class for each.

currently employed in a non-profit field - no technical work being done.

interview tomorrow... this is happening fast, I hope it goes well!

poptom · Post by **poptom** » Wed Jul 10, 2002 8:16 pm

Good luck!
Keep us posted.

grundy · Post by **grundy** » Thu Jul 11, 2002 5:04 pm

the interview went well... I interviewed with the team leader, and the guy who is leaving the position that I am interviewing for - he is moving on to a programming position. It went really well - we had a lot of things in common -actually, it was surprising how much I had in common with that guy.

Then, after a solid hour of interviewing, they brought in their superviser, and I started to tank. It became like a bad dream - I suddenly couldn't think or speak, and was conscious that they were staring at me and I was blowing it. So I said "I'm sorry, I started to get nervous and lost my train of thought. I'm going to start over." I made a decent recovery. The team leader actually helped me out - it definately seemed like she liked me. Then, I ran into the outgoing guy in the lobby, and told him that I enjoyed talking to him, and hoped to be back soon. He shook my hand and said "I think you will"

So, hopefully I impressed the right people.

grundy · Post by **grundy** » Tue Jul 30, 2002 1:31 pm

second round of interviews tomorrow. seems to be going well.

A_COMMUNIST · Post by **A_COMMUNIST** » Tue Jul 30, 2002 2:26 pm

Grundy, ONce you get to the 6th ot 7th round of interviews you will be so fed up with this company that you will not go back.

trust me.

I have lasted up to the 8th and 9th rounds of interviews before I dropped out and was voted off the island.

it's called SAP Survivor.

The Company's Moto is:

"" If you are a SAP. Then, you are a Survivor. ""