On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 10:55:45PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > A business owner is a business owner. An employee is an employee. I will > not hire anyone but a Linux enthusiastic, because anyone else is not > very useful to me. Still, I believe that people I employ should be > payed, fairly. I may not be at the top of the salary survey (what small > business is?), but I know that I can demand from myself, as the owner of > the company, things I am not entitled to demand from my employees.
Well said. IMHO the problem stems from the "Total Cost Of Ownership" white papers that dead rat and their ilk wrote, where they built their argument on the premise that Linux people should be paid FAR LESS than the competition, i.e. Solaris sysadmin. In any "high-tec" business except manufacturing, salaries (and employer taxes and benefits) are 60% or more of the expenses. In a pure software development company were everyone works at home or at a clients, it can be as high as 90%. BTW the recently ended "internet bubble" was not the peak of salaries. I know several people who billed clients as much as $150/hour for mainframe consulting in the '80s and one guy who was doing it as late as 1996. But you have to watch what you are offered, I just turned down a contract for 10 hours a week at $50 an hour because I thought that I'd never even see the 4000 NIS I needed to incoporate and hire an accountant to open the appropriate files at the various tax authorities. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (077)-424-1667 IL Fax: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 VoN Skype: mendelsonfamily ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
