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Re:High Salaries Are Weapons in the AI Talent War by varelse on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @01:27PM (#16369459)
My plumber charges me $80/hr in the bay area. Now that's ~50% above the poverty line, but it's >2x the median wage around me.
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Re:High Salaries Are Weapons in the AI Talent War by throwawayjava on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @05:52PM (#16371638)
If only every employee received {total revenue generated by company}/{# of employees in company}.

:-)

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Re:High Salaries Are Weapons in the AI Talent War by varelse on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @11:25AM (#16376939)
Well, either he's pocketing a large fraction of that or he's up to his eyeballs in debt looking at his new boat and his fancy new truck. Methinks you're overanalyzing it.
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Re:High Salaries Are Weapons in the AI Talent War by throwawayjava on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @11:58AM (#16377212)
To the contrary. We have actual data that directly answers the question "what is the typical take-home pay of plumbers". You just have to look at the damn table.

Why keep insisting on proxy variables and anecdotes?

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