It wouldn't surprise me if they're doing 1099 instead of W-2, which means you're liable for your own benefits and taxes, which means that in reality you're looking at about $55/60K take-home.
A ROT I remember from a while ago, and that was before medical insurance went through the roof (interesting how the promise of HMOs to reduce health care expenses never came true <g>): take your quoted salary and add 33% to get what you really cost to a company. Later, Ray > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples > Sent: Tuesday March 28 2006 00:22 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Wonder why IBM code quality is suffering? > > >>Also not fair to totally point the finger at IBM who are probably > paying, > >>AT LEAST, double the money being quoted. > >They're not. The latest matrix price I saw for this > position was $50. > > That's full time though, right? If you round to 2,000 hours > annually that's U.S. $100,000 plus benefits plus bonuses with > a Poughkeepsie cost of living, and that's not bad. I think > that's a bit higher than for other programming languages > (e.g. BASIC), if the compensation surveys I've seen are accurate. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
