[jb6]

$25K???? Try $6-10K.

[oceanview]

maybe for a call desk jockey, but for an engineer?

[ottothedog]

My gut impression is that this is probably accurate. I think that offshoring is probaby way overhyped, and is going to be less of an issue than people think. My experience here in the midwest is that bill rates have gone back close to the late 1990's rates. Your mileage may differ...

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/072505-offshore.html

Hatch wrote Ventoro’s Offshore 2005 Research report, released earlier this month, which found that cost savings for companies that send work overseas averages a little over 9%. “If you exclude those that had catastrophic failures and just look at projects that were deemed to be a success, you still see only about 19% average cost savings,” Hatch says.