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Comment by galdosdi | Hacker News Reader

It's even worse. Let's assume good faith and assume the below is a typo that will be immediately rectified:

> Dallas, TX, US $10K - $30K

In the USA, this is below the poverty line, and less than what you make wiping down floors in a fast food burger place off the highway in a shady part of town with no health insurance.

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This is a part-time position, expected to be concurrent with full-time employment or higher education. It's paid hourly and the salary range was defined based on expected number of hours, estimated about 1/10 to 1/5 of a full-time position (there's no way to define hourly compensation in that form field, and the number of hours isn't known exactly ahead of time).

You should just state the hours (4-8 hours a week apparently) and hourly rate (still no idea based on this vague math) in the job req then. Especially when listed next to other offshore jobs with such low wages, it's a confusing and bad look.

If multiple unrelated people are so mislead that you have to answer questions about it, it's a good sign the issue is your communication, not their understanding of it.

My optimistic hope when reading their salaries is that they posted a monthly value instead of annual. If the values are in fact annual then the execs are completely delusional.

Can't be. Nobody would ever pay n entry level data center technician in Dallas $30k per month either. It's bizarre. You'd have to hire exclusively felons without high school degrees to be able to command such a low wage.

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