Is this a reasonable salary & hourly (Service/Help Desk Tier 2)

Certs: MCDST, MCSA (Server Admin 2003), A+, Sec+
Net+ & MCTS + MCITP (Windows 7) within two weeks
Sharp troubleshooting skills and extensive familiarity with windows
Experience:
1.5 Years Service Desk, Tier 2
Troubleshooting, creating exchange and AD objects/accounts + assigning permissions/groups. Hardware diagnostics & re-imaging.
3 Years Freelance
Troubleshooting & Setting up domain controllers w/ AD, DNS, DHCP, Firewalls, and backups. (10-50 employee clients)
Salary $50k + benefits
Hourly $23-25 + benefits
Area: DC Metro Area
Net+ & MCTS + MCITP (Windows 7) within two weeks
Sharp troubleshooting skills and extensive familiarity with windows
Experience:
1.5 Years Service Desk, Tier 2
Troubleshooting, creating exchange and AD objects/accounts + assigning permissions/groups. Hardware diagnostics & re-imaging.
3 Years Freelance
Troubleshooting & Setting up domain controllers w/ AD, DNS, DHCP, Firewalls, and backups. (10-50 employee clients)
Salary $50k + benefits
Hourly $23-25 + benefits
Area: DC Metro Area
Comments
Not sure the MCITP Windows 7 does much for you as a Sys Admin..seems more Desktop focused. I think it's right on, one indicator is the way you composed your experience.
"Setting up DC's, AD, DHCP, DNS"...what does that mean? You promoted a few servers to DC's, installed the roles and that's it? Also, clients of 10-50 are small so I would ask you if you ever designed and or implemented a DFS or ADFS solution what is your experience with RODC's, reasons for them etc?
Was this work performed with Server 2003? Server 2008? SBS 2003? SBS 2012? Any VMware exposure? If so, what? Exposure to any storage solutions (i.e. Dell, EMC, NetApp)? If so, iSCSI or FiberChannel?
Details, they are important.
Think of the 2:00 a.m. test—if you were awakened in the
middle of the night because of a network problem and had to figure out the
traffic flows in your network while you were half asleep, could you do it?
Salary doesn't seem out of line: Help Desk Technician Salary in Washington, DC | Indeed.com
Does it come with the opportunity to get a clearance? How about commute....are you in DC...Bethesda, Reston.....ETC.......times...schedule....I mean you really gotta look at it in totality...
I mean theres a lot to look at.....DC has a lotta intricate details that play into the salary thing.....DC has a lotta sucky salaries for IT as well..........As many high salaries you have in DC, you have a few bad ones as well.....I know some of you DC guys get the "Dell Certified tech" email every 2-5 weeks for $13 hr AND you HAVE to have A+...........like WTH.....
the better question is, why, at this point in your career with those certs and some expierence, do you want to be at a help desk? I've been in IT for about 7 years now and I have half the certs you do in the DC area... Personally, there is only about 2-3 reasons why I would do help desk:
1. Linux or Security-oriented Help Desk
2. I just lost my job and need to keep the money coming in
Other than that, Help Desk with those certs are like.......meh........you really selling yourself short.....depending on what type of "help desk" it is........my apologies if I sound condesending or brash......