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Originally Posted by MissMisa
Oh - I know it won't, but I wish it did.
Also, it's not because the people in our country don't WANT to do these jobs, it's just they can get others to do them for a fraction of the price. To be honest though, our minimum wage is fairly high and I doubt we are making huge savings by having foreign workers, though to be honest I don't know enough about it to comment fairly.
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As reference only:
Minimum wage in Canada is about 7 dollars/hr, that will equate to about 14000 dollar a year for someone working full time - 40 hours work week, 50 weeks a year (assuming 2 weeks vacation)
An average test engineer or software development engineer's salary is approximately 45000 - 65000 a year. BUT, thats just salary alone. So let say, on an average about 5000 a month per staff... in the case of the company i work for, we estimated that each staff cost us about 12300 a month, that includes their salary (The said 5000), associated insurance, real estate and other operational cost
NOW, if we outsource this job to a foreign country, let say India or China, the cost will come down to about 4000 a month. Even if we request to have the staff sent over here temporarily (just a temporary work visa),the cost will only go up to about 7200 a month...