Klarinet Archive - Posting 000575.txt from 1999/02

From: "Kevin Fay (LCA)" <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] re: new math
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 21:17:37 -0500

David Blumberg wrote:

<<<I do not think that any Craftsmen on earth make $1000 per day. Does not
happen. Maybe $65-85,000 yr, but not $1000 daily. Does anyone in the
Clarinet business (including Stoltzman) make $20,000 a month, every month of
the year? I doubt it.>>>

Ah, the harsh realities of economics.

It's very true that few or no workers make $1,000 per day. It's entirely
possible, however, that that's how much a craftsman would COST the employer
per day. A rule of thumb in the HR business is that salary is about 1/3 of
what an employee actually costs, what with benefits, taxes, bookkeeping, and
(don't forget) the cost of the worker's station in the factory itself. If
the worker makes $35 an hour--which is not at all outside the realm of
possibility--then the figures are definitely in the ballpark.

kjf

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