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How many person years of salary is $84M for that manual from Boeing?

• flyinglizard 7y ago
  Assuming a cost of $200k per person, it's 420 man years, or 100 person team on a four year buildout like this. It does not sound unreasonable - or at least, about the right order of magnitude for such an undertaking.
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  • objektif 7y ago
    What is the undertaking here and what does it involve? Can you please explain?
    • ars 7y ago
      Collecting information from every single team that worked on the plane, describing how the plane is built and how to repair and maintain it. The compiling all of that into a cohesive whole.
    • flyinglizard 7y ago
      The article mentions the figure of 100k pages. Well, 100,000 pages of high quality and specific technical writing is quite an undertaking. If we take the size of the team in my previous post as a given, that's 1000 per writer over four years, or about 250 pages per year, or about a page per working day on average. It's quite a bit.