Tom Mornini wrote: > > This whole thread can be answered very easily: > > ANSWER: As much as you can. > > That's it! That's the entire answer. Nothing else should figure in > unless you > personally wish to make exceptions for any reason you see fit. > > Did the people who ask this question grow up and become educated in a > part of the > world where free markets and capitalism did not exist? > > Perhaps in socialistic colleges in the U.S.? :-) >
If you mean when you say, "sociailistic colleges", very well funded universities full of tenured radicals, then I'm guilty. ;-) Those were my favorite professors! But, I was never deluded into thinking they had in any sense escaped the money economy. The star tenured radicals such as Fred Jameson for example make as much or more than a very well paid software developer so one must appreciate the ironies. As a freelancer you charge what the market will bear. Besides the extra cost of benefits and the added tax liabilities one must also factor in the assumption of risk if you want to come to a justification for charging 100+ per hour. If you don't feel the need to justify, then you merely say, "I charge the market rate." No tenured radical would begrudge you. They know on what side their bread is buttered. ;-) ed
