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- From: rbw3q@rayleigh.mech.Virginia.EDU (Brad Whitehurst)
- Subject: Re: fast-track failures
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.164256.18889@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Virginia
- References: <18639@mindlink.bc.ca> <1992Dec20.192544.2996@ke4zv.uucp> <ewright.725152007@convex.convex.com>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:42:56 GMT
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- In article <ewright.725152007@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
- >In <1992Dec20.192544.2996@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman) writes:
- >
- >>Today's overhead is horrible, but $100,000 1940s dollars is only about
- >>$2 million 1992 dollarettes.... That's about 20 engineers in a Motel 6
- >>for six months, no machine shops, hangers, mechanics, flight test equipment,
- >>nada.
- >
- >You think a typical engineer earns $100,000 a year?
- >
- >I want to work for your company!
- >
- By the time you also pay for FICA, pension, benefits, and
- overhead, a $50,000 engineer can easily cost a company double his base
- pay! BTW, Ed, I ALSO help do the budgeting for my lab, so before you
- ask, yes, I have some experience in this!
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- Brad Whitehurst | Aerospace Research Lab
- rbw3q@Virginia.EDU | We like it hot...and fast.
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