Price fixing wouldn't apply to one person. Courts be damned.

Tom Veldhouse

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From: "Tammy Cravit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Struts Users Mailing List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 8:49 PM
Subject: RE: [OT] Contract Work: Going Rate?


> > general landscape well (Tomcat, Struts, Ant, etc., etc., with Linux, 
> > scripting, various databases, etc.).  What would a reasonable request 
> > be?  Thanks.
> 
> First of all, I would caution about asking questions like this on a
> mailing list, as the discussion of hourly rates and stuff came up on
> another list I belong to and the moderators there obtained an opinion
> from a lawyer that discussing pricing in terms of specific dollar
> amounts in a group like this could be deemed price-fixing by the courts,
> which is illegal.
> 
> That having been said, one common rule of thumb seems to be to divide
> your annual salary as an employee by 1000, and using that as a starting
> point for figuring out your hourly rate. Obviously you'd need to adjust
> that for your local market, but that's not a bad starting point.
> 
> Tammy
> 
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