<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>&amp;gt;  how in the hell is a sys admin contractor making $200k&amp;#x2F;year???&lt;p&gt;Bonuses for special projects. Stock options. Relocation reimbursements.&lt;p&gt;Also given that BAH is also the bad guy they will try to discredit him as much as possible (he lied is a first strike) to divert the attention from their own incompetence.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mililani</author><text>I was thinking before, how in the hell is a sys admin contractor making $200k&amp;#x2F;year???  Especially in Hawaii.  $122k seems about right.  Regardless, this does seem to cast some doubt about Snowden&amp;#x27;s character.  Why lie?  It seems like such a trivial point.&lt;p&gt;At any rate, I really hope the ad hominen attacks don&amp;#x27;t sway public opinion about the gravity of the overall message: even though the messenger may be disingenuous, the government has already admitted to mass spying.  4th amendment rights are being disregarded.&lt;p&gt;edit:&lt;p&gt;Ok, I&amp;#x27;m seeing all kinds of conjecturing.  I know a lot of people who work as civilian IT contractors in Hawaii.  I grew up there; I used to work there at Square USA; my uncle is a retired military officer who is now working for Northrop Grumman as a civilian IT contractor in Hawaii.  There is NO way any civilian IT contractor is making that kind of dough in Hawaii even working tons of overtime.  When my uncle was working as a civilian IT contractor in Korea back during the dot com boom, he was telling me that most of his employees were making $125k.  However, most of that was tax free.  So, they were making money hand over fist.  Since then, he&amp;#x27;s said that salaries have stagnated and even gone down.  He&amp;#x27;s a programmer and an Oracle DBA; and nowadays, he&amp;#x27;s not making more than 100k.  I personally don&amp;#x27;t know anyone who is making $200k in IT.  Even my friend at Goldman Sachs who has a masters degree in comp sci from Cornell is only making $125k without bonuses.  And he said the bonuses are only 10%.  So, really guys, the $200k is most likely baloney.  I&amp;#x27;m not buying that.  But, regardless, it&amp;#x27;s a moot point.  The government is screwing us over; they&amp;#x27;ve already admitted to it in so much words.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Booz Allen fires leaker Snowden</title><url>http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/11/news/companies/snowden-booz-allen/index.html?hpt=hp_t2</url><text></text></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yen223</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;I was thinking before, how in the hell is a sys admin contractor making $200k&amp;#x2F;year???&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Government contracts, especially defense contracts which require clearance, tend to result in inflated salaries.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mililani</author><text>I was thinking before, how in the hell is a sys admin contractor making $200k&amp;#x2F;year???  Especially in Hawaii.  $122k seems about right.  Regardless, this does seem to cast some doubt about Snowden&amp;#x27;s character.  Why lie?  It seems like such a trivial point.&lt;p&gt;At any rate, I really hope the ad hominen attacks don&amp;#x27;t sway public opinion about the gravity of the overall message: even though the messenger may be disingenuous, the government has already admitted to mass spying.  4th amendment rights are being disregarded.&lt;p&gt;edit:&lt;p&gt;Ok, I&amp;#x27;m seeing all kinds of conjecturing.  I know a lot of people who work as civilian IT contractors in Hawaii.  I grew up there; I used to work there at Square USA; my uncle is a retired military officer who is now working for Northrop Grumman as a civilian IT contractor in Hawaii.  There is NO way any civilian IT contractor is making that kind of dough in Hawaii even working tons of overtime.  When my uncle was working as a civilian IT contractor in Korea back during the dot com boom, he was telling me that most of his employees were making $125k.  However, most of that was tax free.  So, they were making money hand over fist.  Since then, he&amp;#x27;s said that salaries have stagnated and even gone down.  He&amp;#x27;s a programmer and an Oracle DBA; and nowadays, he&amp;#x27;s not making more than 100k.  I personally don&amp;#x27;t know anyone who is making $200k in IT.  Even my friend at Goldman Sachs who has a masters degree in comp sci from Cornell is only making $125k without bonuses.  And he said the bonuses are only 10%.  So, really guys, the $200k is most likely baloney.  I&amp;#x27;m not buying that.  But, regardless, it&amp;#x27;s a moot point.  The government is screwing us over; they&amp;#x27;ve already admitted to it in so much words.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Booz Allen fires leaker Snowden</title><url>http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/11/news/companies/snowden-booz-allen/index.html?hpt=hp_t2</url><text></text></story>