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I was thinking before, how in the hell is a sys admin contractor making $200k/year??? Especially in Hawaii. $122k seems about right. Regardless, this does se
by mililani 13y ago
I was thinking before, how in the hell is a sys admin contractor making $200k/year??? Especially in Hawaii. $122k seems about right. Regardless, this does seem to cast some doubt about Snowden's character. Why lie? It seems like such a trivial point.
At any rate, I really hope the ad hominen attacks don't sway public opinion about the gravity of the overall message: even though the messenger may be disingenuous, the government has already admitted to mass spying. 4th amendment rights are being disregarded.
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Ok, I'm seeing all kinds of conjecturing. I know a lot of people who work as civilian IT contractors in Hawaii. I grew up there; I used to work there at Square USA; my uncle is a retired military officer who is now working for Northrop Grumman as a civilian IT contractor in Hawaii. There is NO way any civilian IT contractor is making that kind of dough in Hawaii even working tons of overtime. When my uncle was working as a civilian IT contractor in Korea back during the dot com boom, he was telling me that most of his employees were making $125k. However, most of that was tax free. So, they were making money hand over fist. Since then, he's said that salaries have stagnated and even gone down. He's a programmer and an Oracle DBA; and nowadays, he's not making more than 100k. I personally don't know anyone who is making $200k in IT. Even my friend at Goldman Sachs who has a masters degree in comp sci from Cornell is only making $125k without bonuses. And he said the bonuses are only 10%. So, really guys, the $200k is most likely baloney. I'm not buying that. But, regardless, it's a moot point. The government is screwing us over; they've already admitted to it in so much words.
- jrockway 13y agoSalary != total compensation.
- yen223 13y ago> "I was thinking before, how in the hell is a sys admin contractor making $200k/year???" Government contracts, especially defense contracts which require clearance, tend to result in inflated salaries.
- rdtsc 13y agoYap most likely, NSA billed $200/year, he was given $120/year, BAH pockets $80/year.
- lotsofcows 13y agoErrr, if was paid $120,000/year and worked full time with the NSA, then BAH would have been charging at least $480,000/year.
- rdouble 13y ago$100/hr is not uncommon for contract sysadmins.
- rdtsc 13y ago> how in the hell is a sys admin contractor making $200k/year??? Bonuses for special projects. Stock options. Relocation reimbursements. Also given that BAH is also the bad guy they will try to discredit him as much as possible (he lied is a first strike) to divert the attention from their own incompetence.
- jrockway 13y agoSince you updated your post after I replied, I wanted to add: > I personally don't know anyone who is making $200k in IT. I personally know many people that make 200k in IT. Your friend at Goldman Sachs is getting fucked. He should apply somewhere else and see what they offer him and how Goldman counters.
- incision 13y ago*">I was thinking before, how in the hell is a sys admin contractor making $200k/year???" That's not a stretch in my experience. Unless there's something particular about a Hawaii assignment that depresses rates, I'd say your circle of friends and associates just isn't a very representative of Government IT contracting as a whole.
- airza 13y agobecause it's REALLY hard to find people with a top secret or secret clearance because the process is so demanding.