{"id":576,"date":"2011-04-19T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/Confidential-survey-salaries-in-the-SQL-Server-world.aspx"},"modified":"2017-04-13T09:50:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T16:50:54","slug":"anonymous-survey-salaries-in-the-sql-server-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/anonymous-survey-salaries-in-the-sql-server-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous survey: salaries in the SQL Server world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Following my <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/job-security-loyalty-and-employee-retention-you-need-to-take-control\/\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">survey<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"> on company and employee loyalty, job security, and retention, I think it&#39;ll be very useful to the community to do a survey on salary vs experience for the SQL Server world &#8211; so here it is! <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\"><font size=\"2\"><em><strong><u>This survey is completely&nbsp;anonymous &#8211; there is no way for anyone to know what you voted. 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