Re:Software Engineer Salaries
by jacques_chester on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @07:30PM
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Contracting is lucrative ... until the work stops.
At which point you are able to state, with enormous confidence, how much money you aren't making.
People tend to mentally multiply my weekly rate by about 50 and then get a bit standoffish. The forget that it's more like 40 if I hustle to keep the pipeline full.
And, as an Australian, that I have to pay my own superannuation out of that amount. That's 9% of my income accounted for right there, before tax.
At which point you are able to state, with enormous confidence, how much money you aren't making.
People tend to mentally multiply my weekly rate by about 50 and then get a bit standoffish. The forget that it's more like 40 if I hustle to keep the pipeline full.
And, as an Australian, that I have to pay my own superannuation out of that amount. That's 9% of my income accounted for right there, before tax.