Tunnels in the US cost more than anywhere else

Re:Tunnels in the US cost more than anywhere else by nickthemagicman on Monday November 02, 2020 @02:50PM (#24972352)

Cha ching. Here's the issue.

That 70$ 'overhead' charge.

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Re:Tunnels in the US cost more than anywhere else by winter_blue on Monday November 02, 2020 @02:52PM (#24972386)

That sort of overhead should frankly be illegal. It's exorbitant. To pay the worker $30/hr, and charge a $70/hr overhead on top of it is daylight robbery.

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Re:Tunnels in the US cost more than anywhere else by nend on Monday November 02, 2020 @03:31PM (#24972870)

Is it really? In my experience the overhead for salaried software developers working for contract shops is greater in both raw amount and percentage that that.

This was 10 years ago but I knew developers making $60/hour in salary while being contracted out for 3 times that amount.

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Re:Tunnels in the US cost more than anywhere else by winter_blue on Monday November 02, 2020 @04:41PM (#24973758)

> making $60/hour in salary while being contracted out for 3 times that amount

Those devs should have listened to patio11 (Patrick McKenzie)'s advise, and directed built a relationship with the companies they were being contracted out to.

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Re:Tunnels in the US cost more than anywhere else by s1artibartfast on Monday November 02, 2020 @05:41PM (#24974330)

Unfortunately both California and can the contracting companies are opposed to this. Most companies are not interested in working with sole proprietorships due to the legal liability.

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