At 10:31 AM 12/17/02 -0500, David Humphrey wrote:
The last bit of information I can contribute is this; I managed to negotiate a rate with a local IT consulting firm that caters to a relatively normal (and at this time, stable) market - health care. They have a formula something like this; 33% of contract award is to go to the sales staff for digging up the opportunity, 33% of the contract is fed back to the firm for overhead and base salaries, and 33% of the contract is finally awarded to the engineers actually doing the job! They were willing to bottom-out the hourly rate for such contracts at $75/hr. directly to me.
My last contract position was in 1996-97, but at that time I was getting about 40% while working for a fairly large IT services firm on a DoD contract.
RGF Robert G. Ferrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
