I watched the same program and reached the conclusion that $40.00/hr is a bargain. Where I work, we have a tech. dept. with coordinators and staff on our payroll collecting salaries and benefits, yet we still require the services of our $85.00/hr independent contractor (who works from home in a nearby suburb here in the USA) to keep the bugs out of our system and undo the mistakes of those on our payroll. Rather than replace our valuable contractor, who has been with us for several years, and outsource to a foreign country for $20.00/hr (who can't come in when needed, not to mention encountering problems involving cultural differences and loyalties), we would fare better to pay the American contractor triple and eliminate our salaried deadweight. With this in mind, wouldn't you say that you were getting off fairly easy by paying only $40.00/hr?
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I watched the same program and reached the conclusion that $40.00/hr is a bargain. Where I work, we have a tech. dept. with coordinators and staff on our payroll collecting salaries and benefits, yet we still require the services of our $85.00/hr independent contractor (who works from home in a nearby suburb here in the USA) to keep the bugs out of our system and undo the mistakes of those on our payroll. Rather than replace our valuable contractor, who has been with us for several years, and outsource to a foreign country for $20.00/hr (who can't come in when needed, not to mention encountering problems involving cultural differences and loyalties), we would fare better to pay the American contractor triple and eliminate our salaried deadweight. With this in mind, wouldn't you say that you were getting off fairly easy by paying only $40.00/hr?