Borkachev on 15 October 2007
Employees cost a heck of a lot more than just their salary. This link gives some rough estimates of those costs in the USA. Japan will obviously be different (health coverage probably being the big one), but things like the cost of office space might balance it out somewhat.
HappySquirrel's numbers seem perfectly reasonable to me, or even a little conservative. His wording was clear too, as far as I'm concerned.
