Re: [PLUG] Jobs -- YES

["William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org>]

On Saturday, December 28, 2002, at 04:39 PM, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 02:38:46PM -0500, Weissman, Gary wrote:
> > We already have competent Windows 2000 guys who bill us at $50/hr and 
> > I
> > don't know if there are Linux consultants out there willing to work 
> > for
> > comparable numbers.
>
> Fwiw, I'm a salaried Unix/Linux systems administrator, and I work
> for somewhere between $15-$20 an hour. So yeah, there'd better be.
> And your Win2k consultants better be Gods at that rate.

Your "salaried" rate completely ignores benefits. Depending upon the 
company, benefits costs equal about 30% to 60% of base salary.

And for what it's worth, $40K ($20/year) is currently an entry to low 
mid-level salary in the Philadelphia region. A senior Sys Admin 
position is in the $60-70K range.

I've been billing $125 an hour for Mac OS X consulting lately, mostly 
for folks making the transition from OS 9 to OS X -- not even for OS X 
Server!

T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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