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Re:Google’s Shadow Work Force: Temps Who Outnumber Full-Time... by josephjrobison on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @11:44AM (#20031260)
The most interesting part of all of this, is that when SV companies soft-brag about their high average salaries, they leave out all the contractors contributing significant work.

So instead of the average Google compensation being $144,652 (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3304439/man-or-myth-the-3-...), it could be 30-50% lower if you account for contractors.

But an average Google compensation of $80,000 (for example) wouldn't be a good recruiting tool.

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Re:Google’s Shadow Work Force: Temps Who Outnumber Full-Time... by SamReidHughes on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @11:45AM (#20031276)
That's irrelevant if you're recruiting employees.
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Re:Google’s Shadow Work Force: Temps Who Outnumber Full-Time... by not_a_cop75 on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @12:47PM (#20031877)
But if you're relying on the name to lead potential employees to contract because it's contact with Google, then the pay scale is misleading. Contracting for Google is a lot like being a Serf for Techdom.
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Re:Google’s Shadow Work Force: Temps Who Outnumber Full-Time... by manfredo on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @12:07AM (#20036772)
A total average compensation across all contractors and employees of $80k seems pretty far fetched. Assuming a roughly 50/50 split between contracts and temp workers, if the employee compensation average was $145,000 then contractors would have to make an average of $15,000 in order for the combined average to be $80,000.
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