Re:Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe?
by ahupp on Thursday January 14, 2021 @11:09AM
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True, but remember that the initial question is about how much they pay SWE. I'd expect that the pay for contractors in e.g. the kitchen isn't subject to the same competitive forces, and won't move up as the company becomes more profitable.
Google and Facebook both have as many contractors as employees: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/technology/google-temp-wo...
> But the company’s increasing reliance on temps and contractors has some Google employees wondering if management is undermining its carefully crafted culture. As of March, Google worked with roughly 121,000 temps and contractors around the world, compared with 102,000 full-time employees, according to an internal document obtained by The New York Times.
Accounting for those would reduce profit-per-employee to half. Furthermore, those contractors earn a lot less, further boosting the wages for the full-time employees.