Google lays off contractors who unionized last month | Engadget

Barns@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.world – 827 points –
Google lays off contractors who unionized last month | Engadget
engadget.com
92

You are viewing a single comment

The median salary for a software engineer in the US is something like $70,000 a year last I checked on the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A gigantic portion of those 26 million people "in tech" work boring help desk jobs or run the IT for small companies or whatever. It defies logic that FAANG etc would pay people with a few years' experience a half a million dollars in total comp if they were so easily replaceable.

Plus, remember that there always are people willing to do it for less. Unless customers pitch in.