House Purchase Advice

[Steve85]

To some extent I agree, some are above, some are below the 88K. I have people on a regular basis that produce a a near zero margin but you make up for it on others. These are usually key personnel that the govt has told you, "If you don't have that guy on your team, you won't win the bid".

For the pay grade the skills represent, I'm showing a 40K delta from highest to lowest, with plenty at the 100K you suggest, the avg is in-line though. It gets a little muddy when you try to align job descriptions with labor category descriptions that don't always inlcude specific education requirements and so on. So it's possible to have two people in the same labor cat, working side-by-side, one making 95K and the other 75K.

It's hard not to give govt contractors raises when they know the rate you're charging the govt is going up annually based on predetermined escalation rates.

And Chris is right, Lockheeds rates in many of the same categories we have ,support an additional 20-30K in salary while our small business subs pay almost half for the same "person".