<top posted for consistency> Chris, you are aware I hope that when you pay $165 to a headhunter, the contractor may see $55.
So who again are you cutitng slack? ;-) On Fri, June 20, 2008 10:38 am, Michael J McCafferty wrote: > Chris, > I used to do the same. I figured if I should know what it is that I am > researching, at the rate that I am charging them, then it's on me to > know it or find it out. Almost very gig has some research to do, but if > i figure I was deficient in some area, I will get proficient on my own > time in order to provide value to my customer. > Now that I do not sell my time as a contractor, but I pay contractors, > I dont' necessarily shop for this ethic, but the ones that have it seem > to be the ones that I bring back. > If I am paying $165/hr to someone, they had better know what they need > to know, or else know where and how to get that knowledge pretty darn > quick. If I am paying $55/hr, then I might cut some slack if they are > otherwise makin' things happen. > > Mike > > > On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 15:52 -0700, Chris Louden wrote: >> I charge $100 per hour to my customers. However I also offer flat >> rates for certain projects. In the past Robert Half, ManPower, or >> similar will pay me about $40 an hour I presume that they bill double >> that maybe more. I know a lot of IT Service companies are all about >> the "billable hours" but that's just not my ethic. >> >> Three others that I know, one charges $150, another $100 and the other >> $90. >> >> I generally stand alone on this but I always feel awkward charging >> customers for "research" time. I generally only bill them for half the >> time. I'm learning something and helping them which I figure is 50/50. >> This applies when a customer wants me to do something in SMB or etc. >> that I don't do all that often not to researching problems with >> Apache, backups, or some generic error for example. >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Paul G. Allen >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I'm wondering what the current average hourly rate is for Linux >> contractors >> > in San Diego county is. This would be for system setup and >> configuration and >> > network design and implementation. (That last part may be thought of >> as a >> > network engineer.) >> > >> > tia, >> > >> > PGA >> > -- >> > Paul G. Allen, BSIT/SE >> > Owner, Sr. Engineer >> > Random Logic Consulting Services >> > www.randomlogic.com >> > >> > >> > -- >> > [email protected] >> > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list >> > >> >> > -- > ************************************************************ > Michael J. McCafferty > Principal, Security Engineer > M5 Hosting > http://www.m5hosting.com > > You can have your own custom Dedicated Server up and running today ! > RedHat Enterprise, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and more > ************************************************************ > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
