Re: Slightly OT Re: [SAGE] Tests for Systems Administrator interviews.

[Allan West <allan@cookie.org>]

John Borwick wrote:

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> Brad Knowles wrote:
> | At 7:08 PM -0700 2004-08-23, Michael T. Halligan wrote:
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> |>  $100/hour for a GOOD contractor who's working for you 20 hours a week
> |> means
> |>  roughly $100k per year. For that same amount of money, you can get a
> |>  mid-level sysadmin who's base salary is about $80k per year.
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> |     No, you can't.  The general rule in the US is that a paid employee
> | costs an employer about three times their base salary in terms of
> | overall expenses, including salary, insurance, employer taxes, mandatory
> | contributions to retirement, etc....  For a contractor, those issues are
> | something that someone else has to deal with.  If you're self-employed,
> | you may be able to eliminate or reduce some of those costs, but for a
> | contracting/consulting company, that rule should also hold true.
> 
> I've heard, from people who give out benefits, that the additional cost
> of benefits is 30-35% (in the USA), not 300%.
> 
> Yours,
> John
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> ~            John Borwick
> ~        System Administrator
> ~       Wake Forest University | web  http://www.wfu.edu/~borwicjh
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At the University of Florida we're told that "salary" is 70% and 
"benefits" is 30%, so the person making $35k costs the U. $50k. This 
will likely vary deending on benefits and regionl taxes. I can beleive 
over 50%/50% in a more socialist European state.
Allan