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In many (perhaps most) areas of the US, DevOps staff do not cost $20k per month. For example, 92% of Boston rates are less than half that[1]. This implies tha
by AdieuToLogic 11y ago
In many (perhaps most) areas of the US, DevOps staff do not cost $20k per month. For example, 92% of Boston rates are less than half that[1].
This implies that a $40k per month bill for AWS[2] could pay for three DevOps engineers and save approximately $10k per month in the vast majority of the US.
1 - http://www.indeed.com/q-Devops-Engineer-l-Boston,-MA-jobs.html http://www.indeed.com/q-Devops-Engineer-l-Boston,-MA-jobs.ht...
2 - derived from your statement that a staff of $20k per month would save "~50% off one's AWS bill"
- kasey_junk 11y agoNot to quible, but fully loaded costs and salary costs can be dramatically different.
- AdieuToLogic 11y agoQuite true regarding company (fully loaded) costs. IMHO, a reasonable estimation for fully loaded cost per employee (excluding facilities expendetures) is approximately 1.4 * ES, where "ES" is the employee salary. The "three DevOps engineers and save $10k" estimation was based on working backward from the 92% of available jobs in Boston being less than half of the stated $20k per month cost. Assuming a Gaussian distribution where 0.5 * $20k per month represents the high end of two standard deviations (since Boston ranks quite highly in S/W salary nationally), most DevOps engineers will be paid roughly half of that as well. This yielded an estimation of $6.5k per month per DevOps employee or $19.5k per month for three. Since all of this was off-the-cuff, I figured it best to throw in a bit of "fudge factor" and present a $10k per month savings. As always, YMMV and I could be completely wrong about all of this :-).