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This. $100k won't even get you two decent programmers for a year.

• Cookingboy 13y ago
  Two? It won't even get you one depends on geographical locations.
  • parasitius 13y ago
    Go ahead and keep your heads up in the clouds like a ten square mile area is "the real America" so the rest if us can wallow in shame at the money we wasted on our educations, you braggarts. In the real America, like say Ohio, that is the salary of almost three developers.
  • cgore 13y ago
    $90k is an "average" developer in the US (not the Valley, the US: you can easily make that here in St Louis where I am.) A multiplier of 1.5 - 2.0 is common when you bill out, to account for offices, chairs, electricity, health insurance, etc. And it isn't just software, actually it is often higher in other fields: an auto mechanic might make $25/hour and be billed out at $75/hour. So $100k will get you ONE run-of-the-mill Java programmer for 6-9 months tops. This accelerator is just looking for idiots. http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/software-developer/salary http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/software-developer...
• simplyinfinity 13y ago
  This really depends on where you live. if you are in a poor country with a decent amount of good developers, 100k can buy you 4-5 programmers for a year or 2 really good ones for year and a half or two. But yeah, 50% for 100k is a really bad idea.
• bfrog 13y ago
  You won't even get one in chicago for that