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Re:A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing by Spooky23 on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @07:42AM (#11619658)
That's already happening. I pay the guy mowing my lawn as much as the 40th percentile IT or programmer working at my company.
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Re:A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing by TheCoelacanth on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @10:23AM (#11620935)
Do you give him the salary and benefits of a 40th percentile programmer and pay all of his expenses in addition to that? Do you pay him as much as the billable rate of a 40th percentile programmer?

I doubt either one. To compare a full-time employee's hourly wage to an hourly billable rate you will generally want to multiply the hourly wage by about 2.

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Re:A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing by Spooky23 on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @11:10AM (#11621316)
His average is about $60/hr. Plenty of IT full time, W2 contractors are billed at $45/hr fully loaded.
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