CatmanV2
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Was quoting a job for a German company installing some process plant in the UK.
Didn't win the project was told we were more than double the competition. We were still on the site when the competition arrived to install the said process plant. They were from Bulgaria. Was asked to quote another job from the same German company. Declined, and they simply couldn't understand why our UK labour was so much more expensive than the Bulgarian labour!
Our fully laden cost for techs in Bulgaria was about 30% of the UK rate. It's not just wages it's reduced cost of living and property, rents etc etc etc
KL the difference was even starker
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