Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

[Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl>]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 07:50:50AM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 14:01 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:
> > Having 40k USD doesn't mean you get to spend that all on a developer.
> > At least in Europe there is a huge amount of overhead (factor of
> > 2.0-2.5 IIRC for .nl).
>
> It's a reasonable pre-tax salary for an American. :) (We almost always
> think of pre-tax salary.) Like I said, it's not competitive for a
> developer, and I don't think hiring a developer is really a good idea,
> but it's a reasonable salary.

I'm talking about that when a company gives someone a salary of 40k USD,
the amount it costs the company is (at least in Europe) significantly
higher than 40k USD. After that you have what you mentioned: taxes (for
employee), etc.


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Regards,
Olav