Contracting IT personnel via staffing firms

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Originally posted by: KrillBee

Originally posted by: HotChic

Mm, typically a consultant at that rate would be flown out for a few weeks of work at a time. You may pay a consultant $70-150 for a few months. The consultant would likely work out of his or her home between gigs, and hold several gigs a year but not all back to back.

even $70-150 per hour is a lot. i mean if you could sustain multiple jobs like that year round, you;d be making 140-300k per year.

And some people do. Like I said though, you typically wouldn't hold these jobs back to back. All total, you might work 6-8 months a year, at a rate of $150-350/hr. The higher you get, the less likely you are to be brought on for substantial amounts of time. ($350/hr might mean a two or three day speaking engagement across the country, etc.)