Iraq bomb disposal contract pays well for Charlotte engineers ($$$$)

[leftchick]

http://www.the-dispatch.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050214/APN/502140827&cachetime=5

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Charlotte's Zapata Engineering is working to help dispose of captured explosives. The first one-year contract the company received in September 2003 totaled $3.8 million for five management positions in Iraq.

Taxpayers paid $350,000 in salary for the company's top manager, a liaison officer, plus $850,000 in overhead, insurance and profit costs, an analysis by the Winston-Salem Journal found.

A separate analysis by the Center for Public Integrity said Zapata's $3.8 million task order on its services contract paid the liaison officer $696,565 for 52 weeks, based on an 84-hour work week.

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The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit watchdog group that does investigative reporting on public policy issues, said each program officer is paid $520,928 for 52 weeks. In total, $2.8 million of the military's $3.8 million task order for Zapata could be spent just for the salaries of the five-person team, the center said.

...Our Tax Dollars... :puke:

[highnooner]

1. IIRC, GHWB started Zapata

Hmmmmm....

[RamboLiberal]

2. Iraq bomb disposal contract pays well for Charlotte engineers

http://www.the-dispatch.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050214/APN/502140827&cachetime=5

The high-risk, high-reward experience of U.S. companies in Iraq has meant big bucks for a small Charlotte engineering company with an important skill.

Charlotte's Zapata Engineering is working to help dispose of captured explosives. The first one-year contract the company received in September 2003 totaled $3.8 million for five management positions in Iraq.

Taxpayers paid $350,000 in salary for the company's top manager, a liaison officer, plus $850,000 in overhead, insurance and profit costs, an analysis by the Winston-Salem Journal found.

A separate analysis by the Center for Public Integrity said Zapata's $3.8 million task order on its services contract paid the liaison officer $696,565 for 52 weeks, based on an 84-hour work week.

[neohippie]

3. shizzat ain't only rotten in denmark

I don't suppose that I would want to be anywhere near the guy who is disarming any explosive on his 80th hour of the week.

[oneighty]

4. Ex Military EODs were offered

$150,000 a year for EOD work in Kuwait following Gulf one. An interesting salary. Alas I was too old to consider it. Many ex-military EODs do right well in the Field and they do earn the money.


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