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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: fast-track failures
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.193350.5393@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Dec20.192544.2996@ke4zv.uucp> <ewright.725152007@convex.convex.com> <1992Dec29.164256.18889@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1hrcplINNd4u@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:33:50 GMT
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- In <1hrcplINNd4u@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> bafta@cats.ucsc.edu (Shari L Brooks) writes:
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- >In article <1992Dec29.164256.18889@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- >rbw3q@rayleigh.mech.Virginia.EDU (Brad Whitehurst) writes:
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- >>In article <ewright.725152007@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward
- >>V. Wright) writes:
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- >>>You think a typical engineer earns $100,000 a year?
- >>>
- >>>I want to work for your company!
-
- >> By the time you also pay for FICA, pension, benefits, and
- >>overhead, a $50,000 engineer can easily cost a company double his base
- >>pay! BTW, Ed, I ALSO help do the budgeting for my lab, so before you
- >>ask, yes, I have some experience in this!
-
- >Wow, your lab pays for FICA? I'm impressed. It takes up about a third
- >of *my* salary, when combined with income taxes. Right out of my pay.
- >I was under the impression it came out of everyone's pay, that that was
- >the idea behind "Social Security".
-
- I think you need to find out a bit more about manpower accounting and
- just who pays what, Shari. The first thing you will find is that your
- employer pays the same amount of FICA that you do -- in other words,
- you only pay for half of it. Then there are things like health
- insurance (typically in the $4k range), pension contributions (figure
- about the same as your FICA bill, at least), usage of facilities, etc.
- Having a single engineer is likely to cost you MORE than $100k, by the
- time you add in all the overhead costs.
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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