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> Four hours of engineering time (very roughly $1000) In my proximity I don't know anyone who is doing any sort of Engineering work, be it dev/sysadmin/ML/data
by CoolCold 3y ago
> Four hours of engineering time (very roughly $1000)
In my proximity I don't know anyone who is doing any sort of Engineering work, be it dev/sysadmin/ML/datascience/whatever. I'm so astonished by the numbers of 250$/hour of fulltime job (consulting likely a different story).
I'm very much curious, what kind of Engineering role that could be, in which industry/country/company, if you can name a few and/or share some other info.
- aftbit 3y agoI typically calculate the cost of engineering hours as about 2x their salary costs. This captures the additional employer-paid taxes, benefits, etc, as well as ensuring that I don't under-value the cost, which is typically the bigger threat when providing estimates. I know good SREs (fancy sysadmin plus some devops, but with more class) on the scale from around $120k/yr up to about $300k/yr. This is in the USA. Everyone I know started in SF but since the COVID diaspora, they are all around the US now. $250/hr estimate -> $125/hr salary -> roughly $250k/yr My estimate might have been a big high, but really what I'm trying to drive home is that people are almost always more expensive than hardware.