Jarhead

Discussing salary ranges and what "we" as a community are willing to pay for work performed is important, especially for core infrastructure development. However, a key thing that I believe the majority of the conversation currently misses is that the "cost" of an employee is substantially higher than just their base salary. I was always advised to add about 30% more to account for taxes, compliance, etc and that is backed up by @grok's estimates here. It's okay to still believe these costs are too high (and they likely are even in various parts of the US where cost of living is substantially lower than California, the North East, etc). One question we have to ask and answer ourselves though is whether we want to budget to hire the best candidate for the job regardless of location or whether we must look for the cheapest available candidates in order to find workers at our price point. x.com/i/grok/share/b…