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Can anyone give me an idea? What are the highest and lowest rates? Thanks.

Corp-to-corp no travel expenses:
low level developer, 2-4 years experience, 35-75/hour
Senior architect, 8-12 years experience, 100-150/hour

Highest: whatever you can screw out of them.
Lowest: whatever you let them screw you down to.
It's got to be based on your worth, your value to your client. It ought to be the basis of negotiation.

How come the rates I see on different job sites are much lower than what you guys are saying? Is there a secret to negotiation that I don't know?

Thanks.

1. W-2 contract employees have different tax obligations than corp-to-corp rates.

2. Customer is willing to pay $X/hour for average developer. Contracting company wants 25-50% of that, so contractor gets .50 to .75 of $X. If Contracting company is subcontracting, each layer takes a piece of the billing rate, and so on.

3. Travel costs are sometimes included in the rates, sometimes not.

4. Skills vary, requirements vary, projects vary.

5. A person with 2 years of ETL doesn't necessarily have 5 years of programming experience. If you don't know who Kimball or Inmon are, couldn't explain an SCD, and don't know what a surrogate key is, than your bill-ability will diminish.

6. Project durations vary.

Whoaa After 9 years same situation with DataStage Pay/Rates.
Whereas Gas prices and comodity price doubled and four-fold expanded...

Buy less gas, etc.

The capitalists continue to get richer, though.

Wait till you learn about time expiring money

kcbland wrote:low level developer, 2-4 years experience, 35-75/hour
Senior architect, 8-12 years experience, 100-150/hour

offshore is always a misery irrespective of the worth