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Re: STC and Me...

Subject: Re: STC and Me...
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 11:10:15 -0800

JRessler -at- ewa-denver -dot- com wrote:

I was told to cut your consulting salary in half if you were to become an
employee with a company that offers "good" benefits. I can't imagine that
is always accurate.

It's not. The few times I've taken a full-time position (which usually means that it will declare bankruptcy within six months; not that I'm superstitious, but companies really should think twice about putting me on salary), I've negotiated salaries that were 0 to 15% less than what I was making as a contractor for doing the same work.

It all depends what you can negotiate. Obviously, you don't want to aim so high that the company loses interest. On the other hand, you don't want to aim too low, either - and if you accept the various surveys and received wisdom unquestioningly, you will almost certainly aim too low.


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Bruce Byfield 604.421.7177 bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com

"Whoever invented the policeman ought to be licked into shape,
Toughened and trained till the body's a cane...
Till obedience rules and encircles the brain
With walls so he'll never escape."
- Leon Rosselson "Whoever Invented the Fishfinger"




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