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On Fri, June 20, 2008 10:46 am, Lan Barnes wrote: > <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 > -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
