i have done a lot of consulting on the side for the past 4 years, and have always been able to charge $150 an hour. not sure if that is my RHCE defending that rate or if i've just gotten lucky. i think it depends a lot on the "size" of the client. Rob Terhaar wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >