On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 07:50:50AM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 14:01 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > > Having 40k USD doesn't mean you get to spend that all on a developer. > > At least in Europe there is a huge amount of overhead (factor of > > 2.0-2.5 IIRC for .nl). > > It's a reasonable pre-tax salary for an American. :) (We almost always > think of pre-tax salary.) Like I said, it's not competitive for a > developer, and I don't think hiring a developer is really a good idea, > but it's a reasonable salary.
I'm talking about that when a company gives someone a salary of 40k USD, the amount it costs the company is (at least in Europe) significantly higher than 40k USD. After that you have what you mentioned: taxes (for employee), etc. -- Regards, Olav _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
