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February 16, 2009
What you pay for
A nasty shock for private contractors who signed up for the Pentagon's Human Terrain System social science teams as staff discover they are now to be civil servants. For most, this means a dramatic cut in pay.
One Wired commenter does the math.
I'm certain that someone is going to be jumping on the chance to work in Iraq with it's bugs/scorpions/IEDs/insurgents setting you on fire with cooking oil so you spend two months dying slowly in a hospital/etc. etc. for $16.55 an hour. It beats not having a job.... I guess...
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(Typically contractors work 80+ hour work weeks. 40 hours normal time + 20 hours time-and-a-half + 20 hours double-time = 110 labor-hours/week. 50 work weeks per year* and 91k per year... $16.55/hour.)
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(Typically contractors work 80+ hour work weeks. 40 hours normal time + 20 hours time-and-a-half + 20 hours double-time = 110 labor-hours/week. 50 work weeks per year* and 91k per year... $16.55/hour.)
Posted by Ghost of a flea at February 16, 2009 06:53 AM
