<I have heard the wage of a KBR truck driver is $150K/year.
And where did you derive this figure from. From the depths of your fourth point of contact?
Here's an article that states that KBR was paying $80,000/year in 2004.
So far in Iraq, 35 KBR workers have been killed and 75 have been wounded. Two remain missing. But for Stringer and the rest of the KBR recruits, the $80,000 they'll earn — tax-free — is just too good to pass up, no matter the dangerous conditions.
foxnews.com
Here's another one from a website I'm surprised you haven't read yet..
With a baby on the way, he said he's considering her college education. KBR contractors work 12 hours a day, seven days a week for four months before they can take 10 days off. So contractors earn overtime and hazardous duty pay, which will be tens of thousands of dollars more than Tovar's annual truck-driving salary of between $30,000 and $40,000.
warprofiteers.com
And all of this jibes with the KBR folks I've spoken, although not specifically truck drivers. Most of them make about $80,000-100,000/year equivalent, based upon 12x7x52 week work schedules. That's 84 hours per week on average, and equates to about $40,000 to $50,000 were they working a 40 hour per week schedule.
Yeah... real "war profiteers"..
Btw, you don't see the names of contractors who are killed in Iraq served up on Ted Koppel's Nightline "body count".
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