>>They're not. The latest matrix price I saw for this position was $50. >Ennhhhhh, thank you for playing. The $50 goes to the pimp, who turns around >and maybe coughs up $35 to a W-2 who's paying for his own health care, etc.
I guess I interpreted "matrix price" differently. Obviously $50/hour full time direct employee (with benefits) is substantially different than $50/hour paid to a middleman firm. I assumed the former from the original poster. Perhaps a bad assumption. But I made the assumption because $50/hour paid to a contract firm wouldn't seem to be sufficient to obtain qualified U.S. local programming talent. My wild guess is that the position did not get filled at $35/hour sans benefits. In other countries would $35/hour be sufficient to recruit programming talent? Maybe, but that's only the numerator. You then have to adjust for productivity and quality, and those aspects could vary dramatically depending on the country. I happen to believe that quality programmers are true professionals, and professionals are not easily swappable. I think the better development managers agree with me. - - - - - Timothy F. Sipples Consulting Enterprise Software Architect, z9/zSeries IBM Japan, Ltd. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
