Anyone here do contracting work where they bill over $100/hr?

[RichieZ]

Originally posted by: Chronoshock
I interned at a benefits consulting firm whose average rates were ~500/hr for people in my dept (technical solutions/apps). The most senior member charged 645

those are book rates, clients always get discounts.

Originally posted by: Naustica

Originally posted by: RichieZ
my COMPANY bills > $200 per hour for my consulting services

and they pay you how much?

Not enough, i got a 23% raise this year and I'm probably going to leave soon

Originally posted by: Descartes
A lot of people have billing rates exceeding $100/hr, but not many have that and >= 100% utilization. It's easy to have a $150/hr billing rate, but it's not so easy to be billable.

If you work for a consulting firm why would you want to have >100% utilization, its not like you get paid extra for it. And I'm pretty sure almost everybody in reality has >100% but is capped usually at billing 45hrs/wk

 

[child of wonder]

I've been doing consulting for a small business in South Dakota for 3 years this month but I'm only getting $35/hour. I do everything IT related from fixing PCs to setting up and administering a couple Linux boxes on site that run Samba, Postfix, Apache2, DNS, DHCP, etc.

I should demand more money but this place took a chance on me while I was in school and because of the experience of working there, I was able to land my first Sys Admin job shortly after graduation.

However, at $35/hour for me to do all their PC and server stuff whenever they need me they're getting the work done VERY cheap.

 

[dug777]

One of my mates doing articles (tax law) is billed out at $370 an hour

Of course, he sees very little of that, except if he bills more than x hours a day, he gets something like 30% of every hour over that...