RE: Asking The Billing Rate?

[Tony Markos <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Rose

Can a TW contractor win?  $30 per hour on a W2
contract equals $30 K per yer as a permanent employee
with benefits.  Many untrained customer service reps
make more than that here in Cleveland - and you are
saying (I don't doubt you) that they want experienced
TWs!

And subtract for any downtime between assignments and
that 30 K per year rapidly drops.

To quote the on-line Contractor's Handbook: "...if [a]
contractor employee were to use an agency to locate
their next assignment, they would most assuredly earn
significantly less... in some cases less than half as
much as a permanent employee doing the same job!"

AJ Markos

--- "Wilcox, Rose" <rwilcox -at- ssqi -dot- com> wrote:

>
> In Phoenix Arizona, many experience tech writer jobs
> are being
> advertised with rates of $30-35 -- or lower -- even
> those jobs with
> varied skills, etc. -- which is why I'm mostly going
> for Business
> Analyst jobs.
> 



	
		
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