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- From: may@Apple.COM (Patrick May)
- Newsgroups: misc.jobs.contract
- Subject: Re: Job Shop Broker vs Job Shop Hourly Rates?
- Message-ID: <77529@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 22:22:17 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.213727.24418@e2big.mko.dec.com> <m3NuXB6w165w@quest.UUCP>
- Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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- In article <m3NuXB6w165w@quest.UUCP> srhqla!quest!kdq writes:
- >axel@eps.enet.dec.com (Mike Axel) writes:
- >> >In article <1993Jan19.185451.7669@data-io.com> tjj@Data-IO.COM writes:
- >> > Is there a nominal relatioship between what a Job Shop employee is paid and
- >> > what the Job Shop Broker charges?
- >> The relationship is try to get the client to pay as much as possible and get
- >> the contractor to work for as little as possible.
- >> ... the shop
- >> was taking 46%
- >
- > A fairly usual split is 1/3 for the shop, but it depends on the
- >shop.
-
- I've had shops take as little as 16.7% on a 1099 basis. There is
- one shop in the S.F. bay area that takes 35% and I won't work for them
- unless they significantly reduce that figure. I'd seriously talk with
- a shop if I found they were taking more than 25%.
-
- Most important, however, is the question "Are you getting the rate
- you want?" If you are, why do you care what the shop is getting? This
- position contradicts my previous paragraph; I'm still working out the
- cognitive dissonance in my own mind.
-
- Regards,
-
- Patrick May
- may@apple.com
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- "A contract programmer is always intense."
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