William Benson
vbacreations at gmail.com
Tue Nov 27 12:32:51 CST 2012
These discussions seem to crop up from time to time and I dont like the impression I may be falsely giving. In truth I have only recently gotten the courage to ask for 75/hr. I did market research to see that 75 per hr is chump change in the B2B consulting world. I asked someone who runs an IT group here and he told me they bill out at about 135 per hour for their consultants. They dont do excel or access programming They have no problem paying me 75/hr for building an excel solution and don't care if I prefer to use access if it will help them get a larger project out the door or provide an interim solution. So what they really are paying for is results and their main project is worth millions and all they know is they have an exposure they dont want to have and want me to handle that piece. My other client has vastly deeper pockets but hiring freezes and constant "work-out" sessions so to he keeps telling me that he cant afford me. Then asks me to do work anyway and pays me more than my rate as a lump sum yo deliver something. And I checked up and found out they pay personnel companies well over 100 per hr for talented ppl. Not sure I know which I would rather be: (1) consultant with a few clients who I can bill a high rate... suffering mixture of feast (late nights and high stress) or famine (lots of time on my hands for Listserv posting and reading). Or (2) ... a commodity ( i.e. having a skillset only) and go from site to site, making a lower wage but perhaps having more certainty where I will be at any given time period. Now that I have jinxed myself by writing this my two clients will probably dry up and I will be starving in 2 months and neither option. Connections are also important.... networking. Regards, BILL ...grabled by smrat phonn as ususl On Nov 27, 2012 11:41 AM, "Mark Simms" <marksimms at verizon.net> wrote: > Not even close here in Philly. Even New York since the financial crisis has > see a dramatic drop in rates. > > > > > Well that makes me feel a lot better about my consulting rate of > > $75/hr... > > > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >