At 04:24 PM 9/10/2004 -0700, Adriana & Timothy Atwood wrote:
>Depends how much they need you :-)
>
>Honestly depends on the type of contract too. Long-term (security), short
>term, emergency support, etc.
>
>For a long-term contract with a guaranteed level of hours per month, I start
>at $50.00/hr. For the right type of work and a client willing to put up with
>me working remotely out of my home, I would negotiate.
>
>For spot rate, short term contracts I would ask at least $70.00/hr. If
>travel is required, I start adding travel costs on top of that. If they
>expect on call emergency support, I add more. Plus I would generally charge
>a fee for each emergency response.
>
>Not to say I actually get that right now :-( (Says Tim who has been doing
>consumer rate PC support and web design lately).
>
>These are all $Canadian rates (West Coast).
>
>Those of you out there earning $100+/hr. may now complain about my
>undercutting you. Let's be honest, the world is changing. Also to be honest
>there is a price I pay for living in paradise.

It also depends upon the work to be performed.  The rate I've paid for someone
in operations support is not the same I'd pay for a FORTRAN programmer,
may not be the same I'd pay for a COBOL programmer, and are all less than
I would pay if I needed a programmer to write low-level PM code.  It also would
depend upon what else I, as the employer, would need to cover to make the
arrangement mutually beneficial.

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