>My first thought was "if they're expecting somebody to work 2x the standard hours, they need to pay at least 2.5x the standard salary". IMHO, in reality, sala

>My first thought was "if they're expecting somebody to work 2x the standard hours, they need to pay at least 2.5x the standard salary". IMHO, in reality, salaries are only superficially related to any notion of how much or hard one works, or how much value one provides, or can provide. I think it's too complex for me to fully understand why this is, but I've seen too many examples of hard workers earning peanuts, and morons/charlatons earning loads, to believe that there's actually a nice line going up between experience/work ethic and remuneration. Supply and demand is only half the story, nepotism is in there somewhere, "marketing yourself", leverage etc. The point is: this ad is either asking for 80h weeks for 1x salary because they think they can realistically get that, or they think it sends a signal to a type of candidate they want.