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Well, it’s pretty close to my salary. But I work in government.

• dragonwriter 6y ago
  > Well, it’s pretty close to my salary. But I work in government. Sure. But it's probably nowhere close to your salary + benefits + overhead cost to your employer.
  • jolux 6y ago
    My benefits are lousy but the contractor I work for probably charges my employer, yes. 300 engineer years would still be quite a lot too.
    • joejerryronnie 6y ago
      Well, there are 2 models of SW development you can use here: 1) 30 top notch engineers to build the MVP and then iterate. 2) 300 engineers - the first 100 to step all over each other trying to build an app and the remaining 200 engineers fixing the bugs from the first 100.
    • dragonwriter 6y ago
      > My benefits are lousy but the contractor I work for probably charges my employer, yes. On top of whatever your direct employer charges to the government agency hiring them to cover profit and other costs (management overhead, contracting overhead) associated with your employment, there's also contract management overhead for the government agency. For contractors, the total cost is usually a greater multiple of salary + benefits than it is for direct employees (though if the benefits suck enough, maybe still a smaller multiple of bare salary.)