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    From john larkin@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 8 11:15:41 2024
    Does anyone know what sorts of overhead rates US companies are
    assuming for engineers? I've heard numbers like 2x, namely total cost
    of 3x salary.

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  • From Joe Gwinn@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 8 19:03:10 2024
    On Tue, 08 Oct 2024 11:15:41 -0700, john larkin <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Does anyone know what sorts of overhead rates US companies are
    assuming for engineers? I've heard numbers like 2x, namely total cost
    of 3x salary.

    For big defense contractors, that is about right.

    Joe

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  • From Joe Gwinn@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 8 20:05:34 2024
    On Tue, 08 Oct 2024 16:30:17 -0700, john larkin <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Tue, 08 Oct 2024 19:03:10 -0400, Joe Gwinn <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Tue, 08 Oct 2024 11:15:41 -0700, john larkin <[email protected]> >>wrote:

    Does anyone know what sorts of overhead rates US companies are
    assuming for engineers? I've heard numbers like 2x, namely total cost
    of 3x salary.

    For big defense contractors, that is about right.

    Joe

    A contact at Textron says 3 to 3.5.

    Also in the range.

    Joe

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  • From john larkin@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 8 16:30:17 2024
    On Tue, 08 Oct 2024 19:03:10 -0400, Joe Gwinn <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Tue, 08 Oct 2024 11:15:41 -0700, john larkin <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Does anyone know what sorts of overhead rates US companies are
    assuming for engineers? I've heard numbers like 2x, namely total cost
    of 3x salary.

    For big defense contractors, that is about right.

    Joe

    A contact at Textron says 3 to 3.5.

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  • From legg@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 9 10:47:03 2024
    On Tue, 08 Oct 2024 11:15:41 -0700, john larkin <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Does anyone know what sorts of overhead rates US companies are
    assuming for engineers? I've heard numbers like 2x, namely total cost
    of 3x salary.



    The only overhead I ever heard discussed seriously was the net
    cost of production labor - this loaded the entire costs of the
    business, R&D, pointy heads and plant on a meat puppet's hourly
    wage.

    Hence minutes and seconds of production time could be estimated
    in terms of dollars and cents, on any proposed new product.

    Getting rid of hourly paid workers had a piddling influence
    on the production cost of real goods. Off-shore or subcontracted
    operations could also suffered from this type of thinking.

    So, go figure . . . .

    RL

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