Is that really price fixing if you are discussing the going rates? ------------------------------------ Three Ravens Consulting Eric Roberts Owner/Developer ow...@threeravensconsulting.com tel: 630-486-5255 fax: 630-310-8531 http://www.threeravensconsulting.com ------------------------------------
-----Original Message----- From: Erika L. Rich [mailto:elr...@ruwebby.com] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 7:24 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: CFML Rates Hi! Hope you are well!!! We've never really discussed in detail, hourly rates here because it's largely against the law ... this list is already watched by a few people we never want to meet. In any case, read here about why you probably have not had many takers for this discussion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_fixing On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Dakota Burns <dakota.bu...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Hi CF Community - > > Been awhile since I've chatted here with you great people. > > I recently saw multiple tweets come across the wire re: #coldfusion > from a "rural" oriented company advertising $47/hr for full time > telecommute coldfusion work. After a short conversation with their HR, > it turns out the max they'll pay for "ColdFusion" is $30/hr 1099 > because the work is "telecommute". Never mind the bait & switch act, > the perceived benefits are "telecommute" on 1099 and possibly > healthcare if you go W2, at which point they might want you to drop > your rate to cover that. Those of us on > 1099 pay full FICA, file taxes every quarter, buy our own equipment, > pay our electric, office expenses, etc.. Does that "bait & switch" > from medium level rate to low rate sound like a scam? Compare that > scenario with Indian recruiters calling with 6 month assignments > across the USA for between $50 to $72 / hr.; corp to corp, which sucks > if you have a family, but -- have any of you ever taken those short > term 6-month gigs from lesser known recruitment firms? > > CFML work, regardless of whether we're talking remote/telecommute or > on-site, appears to still be a respectful language to build great Web > apps and for experienced developers, should command the same pay-rate > / client-billing as DotNet and PHP. I have clients that pay between > $55 to > $70 / hr (dropped $10 from my high end due to economy) -- and it's all > remote work from home office. Get a W2 gig with great benefits, good > group of people, innovative work environment and one may expect that > 55 - 70 rate to drop around 30%. > > Any of you all running into questionable companies that either don't > know how to hire good talent or charge appropriately for their > services -- regardless of whether one's using CFML? It's entirely > possible the $30/hr rate to consultant is compiled into client projects at $90/hr to client. > Good for them, but likely they'll be taking a pass on high level talent. > > Dakota > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:355648 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
