300k sounds a little high to me. I've read reports of mercenaries in Iraq earning around 250k - 300k in a year (and being happy to do so). You'd have to expect

300k sounds a little high to me. I've read reports of mercenaries in Iraq earning around 250k - 300k in a year (and being happy to do so). You'd have to expect that a guy whose job is to take a bullet for some foreign dignitary would get paid better than some guy who sits in a bunker and taps on a keyboard. I'm just going by stuff I've read though, nothing really concrete.