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by Matticus_Rex 2812 days ago
There's a huge variance depending on the complexity of the business and how many different things you do. Most of the variance has little to do with the shadiness/lack thereof of what you were doing with the data or even how well it had been thought through. Most of the variance is in how many different types of things you're doing and how many different data inputs you have.

I've talked to colleagues who do a wide variety of processing for their controllers in a business with just a few employees, which is paralyzing. The company I work in is somewhere in the middle. I've also talked to colleagues at companies who only have a few inputs, and regardless of the volume of input that seems to be pretty easy.