mark wrote:
Let's also not forget that consultant rates are higher than employee pay rates, *and* there's the loading for the consulting co itself; the result is that it costs a company *more* for a consultant than for an employee.
I swear I did not want to get into this but I can't :-) . Consultants do cost more than employ rates, but every descent non corrupt management (from the technical lead to the Director or whatever) makes a decision to employ a consultant to either stop the company from loosing money or jumpstart the company to higher earnings. Capable consultants do not just cost more, they bring more value. If the opposite happens, management is either corrupt, clueless or contracts did not have clauses to role over bad consultants.
One day I had to sarcastically enforce that view to a guy that was making another sarcastic comment about my hourly rate as a consultant. I replied by giving him a finance report that was justifying how much money they were loosing because their Oracle DB was running like a dog. He never talked to me again after that. :-P
So, I am highly allergic to that "paying more" business. (Ex consultant, current employee :-) ) -- -- George Magklaras BSc Hons MPhil RHCE:805008309135525 Senior Computer Systems Engineer/UNIX-Linux Systems Administrator EMBnet Technical Management Board The Biotechnology Centre of Oslo, University of Oslo http://folk.uio.no/georgios -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
