Re: overhead

On Tue, 08 Oct 2024 11:15:41 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
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.
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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