@Dashrender said in Best practice security updates linux servers?:
saying Well - Johnny is just better employee than you, so I choose to pay him more, that isn't going to make people happy, it will likely make them less happy...
You are looking at it from the employer's perspective. Of course it doesn't help the employer. It helps the employee when they can see what X work is worth. If employee 1 makes X for a job, and employee 2 wants to know their own value, they have something to go on. If you don't know what others are paid you have almost nothing to go on.
Remember on Spiceworks when loads of people would claim that $65K was the IT industry cap? Imagine if people (and companies) were able to repeat that without anyone speaking up! People would surmise that if $65K is the top for a CIO, that a system admin must cap out at $50K and a helpdesk tech at $9/hr!
But in the real world, we know that CIOs make well into the seven figure range, admins can get well into the multiple six figures. Even good help desk leads can hit six figures. If we didn't have others to compare against, it's easy to see people misunderstanding the scope of the industry by an order of magnitude.
