I do consulting work for another company, sub-contract if you will.  I
recently found another contract that would be a part-time thing to do
for a little Christmas money for this year.  I approached my contract
firm about doing the billing for me, in hopes that since I brought
this to them, and they don't have any part of this other than normal
billing, taxes and insurance, that they wouldn't rake me for a rate.
It turns out that they want $20/hour above and beyond the expenses for
the privilege of me doing business with them.  They don't have to do a
*$^@ thing for this.  I would be bringing both parties into the
agreement, they would be doing their normal billing and their X%
additional costs in order to handle all expenses plus this extra
$20/hour.  Am I missing something, or does this seem like highway
robbery?  Are there others out there that I could use to drop the
billed at/paid ratios to a little more reasonable level or are all of
the "Consulting Firms" the same?

Kevin

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