साथि हो, यसो सल्लाह पाउम न

QA होइन BA भएर काम गरेको पाच वर्ष जति भयो आइले फुल time नै छ जागिर त, तर $८५ हजार (85K ) छ ज्याला वर्ष को. मैले काम सुरु गर्दा school गइ रा कि बैनी ले आस्ति घर मा आ बेला मलाई कति एउतै type को काम गरि रा भनेर challenge गरि (in अ good way ). उसले Automation (Ruby , Watir ) मा काम गरेर आइले दुइ वर्ष मै $110K को फुल टेम खान थाल्या छे.
She गोट मी थिन्किंग seriously मेरो दुइ टा प्रस्न तपाई हरु लाइ

पाच बर्से BA ले कति कमई खान्छन? BA बाट Automation मा career स्वीच गर्या कसैको केई सल्लाह छ कि ?

I would say good rate for a BA with 5 years experience (and this includes both functional and little technical BA experience) should be around 90K annual. But it also depends on the project and salary range the company has decided. A high paced project will offer more than standard projects. 85K full time for a full time is not bad even though it is on a bit lower side.

Automation is quiet technical than standard BA job duties and responsibilities and involves some level of programming/coding. It is always beneficial to have additional skills set and expertise, so making a switch to Automation (with already BA experience on hand) will be a prudent move - results in self improvement and professional development - resume become more salable.

Good Luck.

I have a couple of BA friends in Northeast making 55 hr. But they are consultants. Your salary sounds alright to be considering your company pays for 401 k and other benefits. Really depends on where you are working. Thau anusar ko paisa kharcha pani ta huncha. Do a cost of living comparison here : http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/cost-of-living/

BA le k garcha, requirements k cha, does this even belong to IT world?

user01, I can only try to feel for how you feel about BAs, if you are a Developer or Systems Analyst. I was working in a gas station for a long time before I went to a NJ **desi** recruiting company and took a training and got a BA job. After working for one year, I remember I used to feel puffed up and also feel that I was experienced enough as a BA/QA. It was easy to nail interviews and get jobs. After working for more than 5 years now, in somehow different clients and slight variations of developmental and infrastructure related projects, although I have confidence in the type of roles (BA) that I can work; but I have no confidence if I can create something of value. I, and most of friends, that I know of, have either worked in Financial / Insurance companies where most of the Fortune 10 clients have no problem with project funding even-though they are mired in SDLC bottlenecks and bureaucracies. I feel, in such industry, the BA role is a perfect mesh of knowing the firm (and obviously their systems). Which any reasonable person can learn. Today, the work that I do, I feel, is not really necessary for my company. But they have kept me. Not only that, they have kept me busy doing things that no company, say in Nepal or India, would do. Helps to pay my bills. But I also understand the threat to my job security and that any college student in Kathmandu or Visakhapatnam can easily do the job that I am doing now. I understand, if not for Bernie or Trump, my skills and values to the firm are swiftly and cheaply replaceable. For now, I am hanging in there. Waiting to become one of those manual labor stories from rust belt.

that was such an honest answer up there ...kudos.