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Did You Ever Wonder Why Billing Rates in Florida are Criminally Low?

seasoned_geek by seasoned_geek

No, it’s not due the massive “import/export” business running through Florida, it’s Senior Abuse. That and the fact that the FBI hasn’t bother putting anyone in prison for violating the DOL prevailing wage law which went into effect with the H1-B reforms. You know, the laws that made it a federal crime to pay an H1-B less than the DOL prevailing wage and made it an even bigger federal crime to hire an H1-B when there was a higher priced U.S. citizen available to do the job.

This post caught my eye today. Usually you don’t see such criminal activity advertised so blatantly.

http://programmingcareers.com/JobSeeker/Technical_Writer_WJ493473.aspx?utm_source=Indeed&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=Indeed

$31K for someone with multiple years of SDLC documentation and the ability to communicate with developers. Well below the starting salary of any other state and well below the prevailing wage for Florida for that gig. Now, here comes the Senior Abuse.

http://www.socialsecuritybenefitshandbook.com/page12.html

http://www.socialsecuritybenefitshandbook.com/page19.html#App_7

It appears whoever reached up their rectal sphincter and pulled out the dollar amount was using a 2004 Social Security Benefits guide. Yes, they want them to continue working a full year for just under the threshold which will cause them to lose Social Security benefits. Never mind that, prior to retirement the senior in question was making 3-4 times this amount AND they got benefits.

Why aren’t all of those Senior’s Rights organizations descending upon these predatory companies in Florida? If a senior chooses to work, they should be paid prevailing wage. For this type of contract that would be $60/hr on 1099 or roughly $50/hr on W-2 WITH FULL BENEFITS. If they chose to stay under the threshold, they could only work 500-600 hours on the project before losing one dollar for every three from Social Security, but, your matching contribution to their 401K should more than compensate for such a loss.

In case they take the post down:

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Location:

Hollywood, FL

Job Type:

Contract

Salary: $30000.00 to $31000.00/year

Please apply as directed in job description. | ShareThis

Job Description

Work with product developers to:
Develop application system documentation
Develop help systems
Ensure quality and a consistent approach to application system documentation
Communicate issues to developers
Capable of writing clear test scripts and instructions for others to follow.
Assist in developing SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) documents.
Work with Quality Assurance Manager to maintain quality assurance.
Ability to learn and understand of QC/QA principles and methodologies.
Ability to follow industry standards and regulations to documentation and testing practices.
Conduct testing and validation of configured systems.
Execute written test plans.
Isolate and report problems.
Use a quality tracking system to locate, update and add issues discovered through testing.

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Roland Hughes started his IT career in the early 1980s. He quickly became a consultant and president of Logikal Solutions, a software consulting firm specializing in OpenVMS application and C++/Qt touchscreen/embedded Linux development. Early in his career he became involved in what is now called cross platform development. Given the dearth of useful books on the subject he ventured into the world of professional author in 1995 writing the first of the "Zinc It!" book series for John Gordon Burke Publisher, Inc.

A decade later he released a massive (nearly 800 pages) tome "The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS Application Developer" which tried to encapsulate the essential skills gained over what was nearly a 20 year career at that point. From there "The Minimum You Need to Know" book series was born.

Three years later he wrote his first novel "Infinite Exposure" which got much notice from people involved in the banking and financial security worlds. Some of the attacks predicted in that book have since come to pass. While it was not originally intended to be a trilogy, it became the first book of "The Earth That Was" trilogy:
Infinite Exposure
Lesedi - The Greatest Lie Ever Told
John Smith - Last Known Survivor of the Microsoft Wars

When he is not consulting Roland Hughes posts about technology and sometimes politics on his blog. He also has regularly scheduled Sunday posts appearing on the Interesting Authors blog.