Bye, Bernie!

[BmorePat87]

(07-24-2019, 08:25 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Well, not to mention, if he's paying his campaign workers that much?  He's likely going to run out of money sooner than later.

When you factor that whatever an employee's salary is, the actual expenditure from the employer is somewhere between 1.25 and 1.4X the listed salary.  For example, and employee with a 38K salary will likely cost the employer about 50K in total cash expenditure.  So, even at a salary of 38K, it only takes 20 of those employees to eat up a Million dollars of campaign budget.  That's just the salary for his local operatives.  The regional campaign managers are salaried (I think) around 48K, so they really cost closer to 65K each.  Then, when you factor in higher level strategists, media advertising, etc.  (cha ching, cha ching, cha ching...)

He has the most money and currently has the largest donor base, so he's in a position to do it.