Matt Jarvis wrote: > Anyways - for those of you that do consulting work, are your rates > holding up or are you finding yourself having to lower them just to get > the work? I'm pretty sure I'll be hanging out my consulting shingle > soon and I might need a reality check...
I raised my rate for my main gig by $10/hr a couple months ago (as per the schedule) and after that they began cutting back my hours. It's still cool by me, because the raised hourly rate helps offset the lost time, and I have more time now for other things, and I kind of expected this to happen anyway, but if you *need* the work right now there are a lot of your peers also looking for work so you have to consider that when setting your rate. As always, come up with the amount you need to charge in order for it to be worthwhile, and that's your floor. Maybe go $25/hr above that, and negotiate from there. I haven't done any analysis on this in a while, but I think something around $80/hr would be my floor for 1099 consulting these days. If I were to take a W2 job, that floor would be somewhere in the $45/hr range probably. Now could I get a new job in the current environment? I'd hope so but it could be I need a reality check too: there may be plenty of younger people willing to start in the $20/hr range and employers may be going more on price than experience these days. Don't undercut yourself though. Just hold on. HTH! Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
