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Originally Posted by Saaf_laandon_mo
I dont know about tight budgets.
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They have tight budgets on (permanent) staff salaries.
For equipment, and contractors there seems to be no limit on what they can spend.
When all the civil servants got the boot a while a go, a friend of mine was a PM on a government project - once they got rid of the permanent staff to save money, they then had to employ contractors at 5 to 6 times the salary of the permanent staff to cover the work.
I think contractor salaries don't go down on the spreadsheet as employment costs, so it's easier to spend on them
I was annoyed because they couldn't get me in there
