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This is great for public health, leaving people with untreated diseases due to artificially high drug prices is literally killing people needlessly.

firstplacelast 9y ago
As someone that works in biotech and has worked in pharma ocassionally, we need to charge more. I know this sounds terrible, but I make 1/5 of what an average engineer does at FaceBook and I live in the same city. So get fucked and die or pay.
- Insanity 9y ago
  The drug costing more does not equate to you earning more, it means the company you work for earns more. Which might or might not translate to you earning more money, but the people in the chain 'above' you will each want a slightly larger share as well. Plus why should they pay _you_ more when they can find people willing to work for the industry average?
- tvelichkov 9y ago
  I'm pretty sure that even if that thing costs a million, your salary will not increase.
- rf15 9y ago
  You're not going to see a raise if drugs get more expensive; the company is only interested in paying you the minimal possible amount and giving everything else to high-ranking shareholders. This is a shareholder/roi-optimising economy, I'm afraid you are not in any position for anything.
- consp 9y ago
  Quite strange for me, in Europe it's the other way around. Biotech engineers earn about double of any other type of engineer, software, mechanical or otherwise. And what everyone else already said: raising prices will almost never result in the engineers getting more money.
  - gieksosz 9y ago
    I worked in Biotech in western Europe for a few years before switching to pure software work. Biotech sector is very small, few openings and all of it concentrated in just a few parts of the world. Money is slightly lower than generic webapp dev work (at least at the companies I know of), probably because universities are pumping out a huge oversupply of viable candidates with PhD/MSc (majority of them quit Biotech / never find related work).

firstplacelast 9y ago

As someone that works in biotech and has worked in pharma ocassionally, we need to charge more. I know this sounds terrible, but I make 1/5 of what an average engineer does at FaceBook and I live in the same city. So get fucked and die or pay.

Insanity 9y ago
The drug costing more does not equate to you earning more, it means the company you work for earns more. Which might or might not translate to you earning more money, but the people in the chain 'above' you will each want a slightly larger share as well. Plus why should they pay _you_ more when they can find people willing to work for the industry average?
tvelichkov 9y ago
I'm pretty sure that even if that thing costs a million, your salary will not increase.
rf15 9y ago
You're not going to see a raise if drugs get more expensive; the company is only interested in paying you the minimal possible amount and giving everything else to high-ranking shareholders. This is a shareholder/roi-optimising economy, I'm afraid you are not in any position for anything.
consp 9y ago
Quite strange for me, in Europe it's the other way around. Biotech engineers earn about double of any other type of engineer, software, mechanical or otherwise. And what everyone else already said: raising prices will almost never result in the engineers getting more money.
- gieksosz 9y ago
  I worked in Biotech in western Europe for a few years before switching to pure software work. Biotech sector is very small, few openings and all of it concentrated in just a few parts of the world. Money is slightly lower than generic webapp dev work (at least at the companies I know of), probably because universities are pumping out a huge oversupply of viable candidates with PhD/MSc (majority of them quit Biotech / never find related work).