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Re:Inside Automattic's Remote Hiring Process by tyingq on Monday January 04, 2016 @01:01PM (#10837150)
$25/hour as a straight invoice (subject to self-employment tax), is roughly equivalent to a $40k/year salary at a company that gives -0- benefits, at all.

I have no idea if this has any correlation to the salary they ultimately offer.

You're right though...it would seem to narrow the field down to those willing to severely undervalue their work for at least 30 days.

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Re:Inside Automattic's Remote Hiring Process by FireBeyond on Monday January 04, 2016 @02:27PM (#10837854)
Yeah - say you're working already and making, say $90K as a developer already. You're going to be taxed 25-28% of this $25/hr at the federal level alone.

Money is money, but I could think of more things I could be doing than work for a highly profitable company for what might about to $15-20/hr take home pay.

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Re:Inside Automattic's Remote Hiring Process by nickpsecurity on Monday January 04, 2016 @03:55PM (#10838520)
"Yeah - say you're working already and making, say $90K as a developer already. You're going to be taxed 25-28% of this $25/hr at the federal level alone."

That's a good point. Never even occurred to me.

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Re:Inside Automattic's Remote Hiring Process by startlaunch on Monday January 04, 2016 @01:33PM (#10837427)
Nope. There's no correlation with the actual salary.
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