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A few people that get interviewed by a reporter do not make a trend. I've heard of SALES ENGINEERS making that kind of money, but not technicians. The moment
by stormqloud 11y ago
A few people that get interviewed by a reporter do not make a trend.
I've heard of SALES ENGINEERS making that kind of money, but not technicians.
The moment a programmer is working at home remote making $300K per year, the employer will find some offshore person to do it at 10% of that price.
Reference Disney and the H1B debacle etc.
The only way somebody as a technician is making that much money is the company they work for hasn;t found a way to get rid of them yet and replace them with cheaper options.
They can find themselves out of a job very fast at that price range.
Once you do the initial setup and things are stable(documented), they will kick you to the curb and replace with $50K worker.
- ropiku 11y agoIt's entirely possible at FB/Google/Apple/etc. They definitely have H1B employees earning that much and I'm sure they are not looking to outsource those jobs. They are looking for quality not the cheapest possible price.
- stormqloud 11y agoRight up until the time the companies are asked to pay taxes. Anyone can give out $300K per year jobs when they are global monopolies that pay no income taxes in any jurisdiction. These are short term anomalies not structural jobs indicate any kind of long term trend.
- ropiku 11y agoCompanies pay profit tax, not income. Since employee compensation is an expense, the tax rate has nothing to do with it. The employees do pay income tax, quite a lot of it.
- stormqloud 11y agoYou are funny. Clearly you never owned a company before and had to do taxes and accounting. You better vote for minimum wage increases too!
- acquacow 11y agoSales engineer chiming in... You can certainly come close, though I've never hit it... depends on the year/etc... I do a lot of architecting of cloud storage solutions involving flash storage in my role. Lots of work to engineer solutions into existing hardware/environment, some rip and replace... Not sure if that makes me a technician or not...
- stormqloud 11y agoA real computer technician looks and has the personality of Simpsons Comic Book Guy. That's why they are computer technicians not salespeople. Nobody that sits and writes code and rarely interacts with other employee's is worth $300K. http://www.amazon.ca/The-Nudist-Late-Shift-Silicon/dp/0375502777 http://www.amazon.ca/The-Nudist-Late-Shift-Silicon/dp/037550... The naked guy at night doesn't get $300K. He's just happy to have a job where he can sit naked..