Anyone on here work for Agilent??

[USMCPMEL]

Someone was trying to tell me that there friend is a calibration technician working for Agilent making $100K per year. Does that sound plausible???

[step30044]

Not at all.......

[CalibratorJ]

Maybe a sales rep raking in the commission $$$$$$, but not a tech, no way.

[USMCPMEL]

That is what I said to but this guy swears his friend works there and makes that much???

[CalibratorJ]

Then I want a job too dammit!

[spanishfly25]

Agilent has a series of intruments (HPLCs) where their techs make close to 100K, normaly you need a pmel degree and a chemistry degree to work on those instruments, my company also work on those instruments and we charge $1000 per calibration and takes only one day to do

[CalibratorJ]

normaly you need a pmel degree and a chemistry degree

= not a calibration technician as most calibration technicians view us. If you have degrees, you are a chemist, physicist (damn the spelling), or an engineer - not just a tech.

[spanishfly25]

well a lot depends in the definition of Calibration Tech. yes most of my guys that work on HPLCs have a bachelors on chemistry, besides of the HPLCs they work in analytical equipment performing calibrations. to us they are calibration techs, because that's what they do, calibrations, but to others they are chemist since that's the degree with more weight.  but the original question was does agilent pays 100K for calibration techs and the answer is yes.

[metrologygeek]

I believe 100k is not out of the question for a top line experienced calibration tech that works a lot of overtime. Straight time, I'd have to see the data. Remember, in God we trust, all others must present data.

[USMCPMEL]

Agilent has a series of intruments (HPLCs) where their techs make close to 100K, normaly you need a pmel degree and a chemistry degree to work on those instruments, my company also work on those instruments and we charge $1000 per calibration and takes only one day to do.

That is low on the spectrum of what I bill at my company. I know most techs in my company bill $300-$350K per year. $1K per day is like $230K per year after you take out time for vacations and holidays

[Ronic]

I worked for them from 2000-2005 in Roseville, CA. I left because they wouldn't budge from $21/hr. I did cal, repair, systems (automated & manual), and I could work on all of Agilent products. Trust me, I was worth it.