Paul Hartland
paul.hartland at googlemail.com
Wed Aug 1 11:41:14 CDT 2012
Thank you for your advice Jim On 1 August 2012 17:25, Jim Hewson <jm.hwsn at gmail.com> wrote: > Paul, there are a lot of calculations to go into something like this. > I worked for a company a few years ago working on proposals for contracts. > This gave me the edge when I ventured out into the contracting world. > > If this is only part-time work, I would just double my hourly pay. Keep in > mind that you would be considered a 1099 worker and that approximately 40% > of the gross will go into taxes (in the US) and you'll need to make > quarterly payments to IRS. > If you will be working a lot of hours... then typically, an employee would > cost the employer between 2 to 2.5 times the hourly pay. > Keep in mind a full time self-employed contractor, has to pay themselves > for holidays, vacation, sick time, all benefits, expenses and required > adminitrative time that must be spent away from the job. All that must be > calculated in the hourly rate. > > So... bottom line - for a few hours every now and then... double your > hourly pay. > > HTH > Jim > > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Paul Hartland < > paul.hartland at googlemail.com > > wrote: > > > To all, > > > > Probably not the best place to put this so I do appologise, but am in a > > situation in which I have never been or thought about before. I leave my > > current company after almost 11 years this Friday 3rd August, and start > > with a new company on the 6th August. The old company have asked me (no > > further details as yet) if I would be interested in working for them on a > > contract basis out of hours from my new company (no conflicting interests > > of business). What I would like to know is what sort of rates etc I > should > > be requesting for support and help for SQL, SSRS, Access, as these will > be > > systems I have worked on for the last ten years. The thing is they could > > have a situation where they are stuck with an issue, I could log on and > > resolve it in minutes, or may take an hour or more, I can work out my own > > time, electric etc, but I am stuck with regards to asking what sort of > > charges for my help. > > > > Thank you for any advice in advance. > > > > -- > > Paul Hartland > > paul.hartland at googlemail.com > > -- > > AccessD mailing list > > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Paul Hartland paul.hartland at googlemail.com