On 4/4/07, Wayne Johnson <wdtj at yahoo.com> wrote: > What I did was take what I was making as a full time developer, add in 7.5% > for the self employment taxes, Another 6% for vacation/sick and then a fixed > monthly charge for insurance, etc if you need to. Then split this all up to > an hourly charge. > > Remember that there is always down time between contracts, so short term > contracts need to charge more for the between the gaps overhead. > > I was charging $72/hr for short term and $60 long term YMMV. > > At one point I was working for a contract house (at $30/hr + benefits) and I > later found out the contract house was charging the client $75/hr. They > were making a VERY nice profit on my labor. one thing that you have to understand is, that having an employee is a lot more expensive then just paying their salary. Things like SS, benefits, etc.. aren't free- and your employer has to pay quite a bit more to the State to have you on as a full-time employee. If they were paying you $30/hr, i bet your overall cost to them was closer to $45-50/hr