Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-community-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 24866 invoked from network); 8 Nov 2010 19:44:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by 140.211.11.9 with SMTP; 8 Nov 2010 19:44:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 49024 invoked by uid 500); 8 Nov 2010 19:45:02 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-community-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 48532 invoked by uid 500); 8 Nov 2010 19:45:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact community-help@apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: list-unsubscribe: List-Post: Reply-To: community@apache.org List-Id: Delivered-To: mailing list community@apache.org Received: (qmail 48525 invoked by uid 99); 8 Nov 2010 19:45:01 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 08 Nov 2010 19:45:01 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2000.0 required=10.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received: from [140.211.11.9] (HELO minotaur.apache.org) (140.211.11.9) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with SMTP; Mon, 08 Nov 2010 19:44:59 +0000 Received: (qmail 24672 invoked by uid 99); 8 Nov 2010 19:44:05 -0000 Received: from localhost.apache.org (HELO emmanuel-lecharnys-MacBook-Pro.local) (127.0.0.1) (smtp-auth username elecharny, mechanism plain) by minotaur.apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 08 Nov 2010 19:44:05 +0000 Message-ID: <4CD85323.2030407@apache.org> Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 20:44:35 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?RW1tYW51ZWwgTMOpY2hhcm55?= Reply-To: elecharny@apache.org Organization: The Apache Software Foundation User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: community@apache.org Subject: Re: Consulting rates References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org On 11/8/10 8:05 PM, J Aaron Farr wrote: > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: >> I've been asked to take a little consulting job, and inevitably the "what do >> you charge" question came around. I have not even the vaguest idea. Can >> someone give me a feel for what the ballpark is these days? (Eastern USA, if >> it matters.) > Rough rule of thumb is to take your salary (or preferred salary), > convert it to an hourly rate, then double it. We were doing a similar computation in the company I was working for 10 years ago : take your monthly salary (including taxes, etc), divide it by 10, add 30%. You get a daily rate. This was the amount we charged our customers for contractors we provided. (of course, we kept a part of this amount, around 20%, so the contractor take only 80% of this amount) -- Regards, Cordialement, Emmanuel Lécharny www.iktek.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: community-unsubscribe@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: community-help@apache.org