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From: "Alan and Carmel Brain" <aebrain@webone.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Engineers Pay
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"John R. Strohm" <strohm@airmail.net> wrote in message

> In the United States, with all overhead considered, a good engineer costs
> his employer on the rough order of $250,000 per year

In Australia, with all overhead, taxes, insurance, etc etc it's about
USD $60,000. That's assuming 10+ years experience. Graduates - half that.
Of course, the actual pay (before taxes) is about 2/3 of those figures.

Actual case: programmer with 20+ years, including 15+ of Ada-83 and
Ada-95, several successful projects under his belt, salary $80,000 AUD
or just over $40,000 USD. Cost of employment, about $115,000 AUD (it's
an efficient firm, but his pay's way above average.).

This BTW makes selling software productivity enhancement tools *hard*.
Something that doubles productivity had better cost less than USD $250,000
per bum-on-seat or it won't pay off before it's obsolete. This is for
firms that are at CMM 3 and above (in practice, anyway).

For a 10% improvement, the cost had better be less than USD $20,000.