Cuban Doctors Revolt: ‘You Get Tired of Being a Slave’

Re:Cuban Doctors Revolt: ‘You Get Tired of Being a Slave’ by Angostura on Friday September 29, 2017 @11:55AM (#15366388)

I think the point is probably this:

> But the doctors get a small cut of that money,

If the Cuban government were taking something like 10%-20% of salaray, you could see how that would wash. I presume they are taking much more

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Re:Cuban Doctors Revolt: ‘You Get Tired of Being a Slave’ by arethuza on Friday September 29, 2017 @12:01PM (#15366454)

It's pretty common in professional services contexts for people to be charged out at least 3 or 4 times their salary.

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Re:Cuban Doctors Revolt: ‘You Get Tired of Being a Slave’ by throwawayknecht on Friday September 29, 2017 @12:23PM (#15366653)

Yeah, according to the article:

> The World Health Organization, a United Nations agency, helped broker the deal. Under it, Brazil pays Cuba... nearly four times what Cuban doctors earn through the arrangement.

Google makes $1,200,000 per employee; a comparable average salary is then $300,000, which sounds on the high end of plausible if restricted only to engineer salaries (and it'd be a very top-heavy average), but implausibly high for a company-wide average.

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Re:Cuban Doctors Revolt: ‘You Get Tired of Being a Slave’ by arethuza on Friday September 29, 2017 @01:13PM (#15367104)

Google aren't in professional services though - which is a very different business model to what Google does.

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