The Bureau of Labor Statistics doesn't seem to agree with you: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...

They report a median of $116k.

Ok, so it's $6k off. That's still $4k short of the $120k mentioned. Meaning you still have more people making under that amount. Especially when accounting for location (they state midwest).

How big an environment are we talking about? More then about 50 servers, you're underpaid if you aren't making 6 figures.

I don't think it's controversial to assume that most non-helpdesk IT staff are being underpaid for the value they bring to their companies.

I'm not a network administrator. I have training in that space. If it were really that easy to find a job paying that, then I would go do it.

You should look around.

I have. Nothing has panned out. Very few things have even look good.

Levels.fyi Teamblind.com Leetcode.com

study these 3 for 6 months and you will easily get over 200k.

I can't. My family mostly consumes all my free time. I'm also not able to relocate since my wife doesn't want to. $200k would be highly unlikely in my area.

PS I hate how people say 'easily' for salaries that are basically double the median for devs. If it was easy, everyone would have it.