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- From: bafta@cats.ucsc.edu (Shari L Brooks)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: fast-track failures
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 05:41:09 GMT
- References: <1992Dec20.192544.2996@ke4zv.uucp> <ewright.725152007@convex.convex.com> <1992Dec29.164256.18889@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- In article <1992Dec29.164256.18889@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- rbw3q@rayleigh.mech.Virginia.EDU (Brad Whitehurst) writes:
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- >In article <ewright.725152007@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward
- >V. Wright) writes:
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- >>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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- Wow, your lab pays for FICA? I'm impressed. It takes up about a third
- of *my* salary, when combined with income taxes. Right out of my pay.
- I was under the impression it came out of everyone's pay, that that was
- the idea behind "Social Security".
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