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You cant directly equate contract hourly rate with yearly salary. If you don't have the budget to hire a 100k a yr salary, you'll have to pay contract rates whi
by nestlequ1k 15y ago
You cant directly equate contract hourly rate with yearly salary. If you don't have the budget to hire a 100k a yr salary, you'll have to pay contract rates which could be over 100/hr
- tptacek 15y agoI buy that the valley is so hot right now that a sysadmin commands $100k/yr there, but they don't in Chicago, Seattle, or New York. I'm not looking to argue so much as to inject some more data into the price point that was casually dropped on this thread earlier. I do not think the other guy overpaid for sysadmin; if he's got an amazing admin, great! I can see paying a premium for that. Another point I'd like to raise is, if you're paying $100k/hr for sysadmin, and using them frequently, contracting instead of fulltiming sysadmin might be penny-wise-pound-foolish. But maybe not, if you're only paying $10,000/yr in sysadmin. We've used over 100 hours of admin in just the last couple weeks. A great hire; one we made "37signals-style", after realizing that doing all the sysadmin chores ourselves was subtly making us all miserable and ineffective. Believe me, I know the difference between contracting rates and salary. ;)