I find this whole thing confusing. I took a workshop on consulting a few years ago. The teacher worked through a scenario in which a consultant wished to make $60k/year (or maintain that amount if coming from a salaried position). After going through all the added expenses and the reduced time (came out with about 1,000 billable hours in the year, as Tom suggested) her analysis was that to earn 60 K a contractor would have to charge about $105/hr, or about 3.5 times the equivalent hourly rate for a salaried position of that amount (appx $30 K/hr).
If this multiplier is basically accurate, this would translate into needing to charge about $70/hr to make the equivalent of $40 K. This would seem to suggest that getting something like $30 or $35/hr would hardly be viable; be better off working at a regular job. Does anyone think this analysis (the teacher's, not mine) is off? Thanks, Randall On Jan 16, 2008 8:59 AM, David Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hope not too off-topic, but on the topic of salaries-- > > Why is it organizations are willing to pay a free-lance photographer > $90-125/hour, but balk at paying a staff photographer $60K/year, which is > only $30/hr? I know there's the whole benefits/pension issue, but the > savings for the photography are huge. And I'm talking about places that use > these photographers on a weekly basis. > > david > > -----Original Message----- > From: Computer Guys Announcements and Discussion List [mailto: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Miles > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 11:38 PM > To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM > Subject: Re: [CGUYS] What to charge for contract to develop web content? > > Don't make the mistake I made when I was a beginning professional > photographer. Don't think you're only worth what a burger flipper > makes. Charge high, very high! Either get it or turn it down and keep > your prices high. When they pay it, it will make up for the jobs you > loose and the headaches from the nit pickers who want the world for a > dime. If they want you, they obviously have a reason. Make sure they > pay for what they want. > > Jeff M > > > ************************************************************************ > * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== > * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== > * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name > * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST > * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L > * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress > * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ************************************************************************ > * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC > http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l > * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ > * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml > * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived > ************************************************************************ > -- Please use new email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
