On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Tethys <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sta296@astradyne.co.uk">sta296@astradyne.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Oliver Howe writes:<br>
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>What is the going hourly/daily rate for Linux Systems Administration?<br>
>The work involves mostly remote admin, but a few onsite visits are also<br>
>required per month.<br>
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</div>It's been a while since I was last contracting, but when I was,<br>
the rule of thumb was to take the salary you'd expect to get for<br>
doing the job on a permanent basis, and divide by 1000 to get an<br>
hourly contract rate. I don't know if that still holds in today's<br>
market, but it's probably going to be there or thereabouts.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The day rate "cost equivalence" of a contractor to a permie is generally annual salary divides by a number in between 140 - 170 (i.e. if you take the amount of money the company saves by avoiding ERNI, holiday and sick pay, etc. and add it to the permie salary before converting to a day rate). Which is hourly terms gives you a ratio of between 1100 - 1350, so that should give you a lower bound for the hourly rate.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Katie</div><div>-- </div><div><a href="http://www.coderstack.co.uk">http://www.coderstack.co.uk</a></div></div>