I know what you mean. My rates are about the same as I was charging 10 years ago and I'm going to have to lower them. And our economy officially went into recession this morning - yay:( The last recession we had hit the contract software development industry pretty hard - nigh on killed it. Cant say I'm overly enthusiastic right now about things.
Geoff -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Kixmoeller/fh Sent: Wednesday, 4 March 2009 11:51 AM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [NF] is your billable rate dropping? On Mar 3, 2009, at 4:45 PM, Matt Jarvis wrote: > ... I think I'll charge about 60% of that with some strict rules about > payments and availability and such... Mine have fallen since 10 years ago, <sigh> but they have held pretty steady over the last 5 or so. No telling what is going to happen now. Just like on 2000 +1 day, when all of those COBOL programmers became obsol, er "consultants" -- I think there will be a lot of new "consultants" out there over the next 18 months or so driving rates back into the toilet. I'm not optimistic about the economy. I know it is hard to tell. Ken [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ 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.
