Rephrasing the Questions

[John Bridges]

On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 07:12:29 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

>When a man-year of journeyman SW engineer cost a
>> company perhaps $150,000 or more, you can see that a few thousand
>> doesn't go very far.
>
>    Curious where that figure came from when I am certainly not that level in
>title and am not even breaking three figures.

I assume they are including overhead, support staff and so on in that figure,
or perhaps were quoting the amount you pay for consultant rates (which, for
in demand fields, can be amazingly high).