Wha are the Datastage contract rates in the US?

splayer · Post by **splayer** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:09 pm

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

kcbland · Post by **kcbland** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:59 pm

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

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:18 pm

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.

splayer · Post by **splayer** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:27 am

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.

kcbland · Post by **kcbland** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:35 am

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.

kommven · Post by **kommven** » Wed May 30, 2012 3:15 pm

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

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Wed May 30, 2012 4:45 pm

Buy less gas, etc.

The capitalists continue to get richer, though.

rameshrr3 · Post by **rameshrr3** » Wed May 30, 2012 4:58 pm

Wait till you learn about time expiring money

zulfi123786 · Post by **zulfi123786** » Thu May 31, 2012 12:23 am

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