[cootsnuck]

> For transparency, a single software engineer budget is $670K+.

Are you saying that the costs to employ a single software engineer is $670K+? If you mean something else then nvm.

Otherwise that's a ridiculous number to use unless you are specifically talking about places with the highest cost of living in the country where a mid-level dev starts at over $200K.

[pknomad]

I am saying that. Salary + taxes + insurance + retirement + other benefits + support cost is around 670k. Salary eats up like 160k of that budget, though.

[robwwilliams]

Please provide a breakdown.

I find this 4X of base salary implausibly high. 2X strikes me as closer to my reality at a large academic medical center.

[pknomad]

I don't have a breakdown. It was a number cited to me from a manager. Downvotes are interesting.

[Newlaptop]

Payroll taxes on $160k salary are $12,240. Employer contribution to health insurance is maybe $6k - $20k. Retirement maybe $5k. Still under $200k.

Heck of a lot of "support cost" to get to $670k

[HFguy]

Your numbers make sense from what I've seen in private sector. And meet the common sense threshold as well.

Whether the numbers are either wrong or if that is truly what support costs look like at a university would be interesting to know.