RE: Labor Board Issues Three Complaints Against WW1

["Aaron 'Bishop' Read" <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 11:00 PM 8/2/2002, Bill O'Neill wrote:
>  the
> >> > company charges $58 per hour for full-time traffic
> >> > information but pays
> >> > the employees who provide the data only $13 per
> >> > hour
> >
>(snip)
>That wage rate seems very low as a percentage of revenue.  No matter how
>you do the math, figure OI, overhead, admin. spread, and other fun stuff
>on the books.  C'maan.
>
>Bill O'Neill

For the average business, a bare minimum charge for a service by an 
employee is usually twice whatever you're paying that employee.  That 
covers costs just associated with having the employee in your service, 
although with their actual salary.  If you have a full time employee, I 
believe it goes up to 2.5 to 3 times what you're paying that employee.

It's bloody hell expensive to run a business.  Ask an AM transmitter 
manufacturer what their monthly electric bill is after running all the 
tests on a 50kW transmitter line.

That said, I think $13/hr is a shamefully low wage to be paying your staff 
for that kind of work.


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