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I've made a pretty good career out of Network (started with a Cisco focus) (>20 years now).

If you're good, then 6 figures is not hard to manage. I would expect folks getting into networking with some certs, but no experience to potentially be able to managed 45-60. Then depending upon how hungry you are, how much you learn how quickly, and how good you are at networking (interpersonal) I would think you could make anywhere from 100k -- several hundred (those guys are the rock stars with multiple CCIE certs, etc...).

What I feel like is hot right now, and all of these go hand in hand with Networking.

Security (has been and will be)
Cloud (hot and probably will be, it can save companies big money and only bites them in the ass if not done right)
Programming/automation. (again, money saver)
VoIP (not as hot as the rest, but I still regularly get emails from headhunters for VoIP positions)