How much would you charge to live and work in another city for a few days

[Smackem]

I will have to travel there regardless to implement the system. My client honestly just expected me to stay a few days. 'To get the feel of things'. Maybe he thought it would take a couple days to get it up and running. It will take no longer than 4 hours. The first thing i said in response was.
'Well, sir, I don't live there. All my stuff is in THIS city.'
He is pretty adament about me staying there a few days. What would you charge? Its a given that he is paying for my lodging and 50$ a day for food. He also said, any free time I have I can play golf on him at the local country club. I guess I will have to do it. The pay is just too good.

 

[notfred]

At the very least, whatever your normal pay rate is for 8 hours per day that you're there, plus travel and expenses.

I know one guy who got sick of having to travel all the time, so he told his employer he wanted $1000/day or he wasn't doing it any more. I don't know if he's done any travelling since then or not.

 

[Acanthus]

Thats just obscene.

Tell him to get a mac if he wants to waste that much money on a PC.

 

[Pepsei]

what kind of system are we talking about ? a leeman analytical spectrometer? or some crappy pc?

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: notfred
At the very least, whatever your normal pay rate is for 8 hours per day that you're there, plus travel and expenses.

I know one guy who got sick of having to travel all the time, so he told his employer he wanted $1000/day or he wasn't doing it any more. I don't know if he's done any travelling since then or not.

$1000/day is insane!

 

[Smackem]

around a 20.,000$ system. Just a few servers and stuff. The guy will be changing(o noes!~) info on one of the servers, so he is bound to fsck it up.

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: Smackem
around a 20.,000$ system. Just a few servers and stuff. The guy will be changing(o noes!~) info on one of the servers, so he is bound to fsck it up.

 

[her209]

Does he have a hawt wife?

 

[StageLeft]

Make sure there's overtime, so that when your free little vacation turns into 12-15 hours/day, you're getting paid for it.

 

[MoPHo]

a billion dollars. no less.

 

[sixone]

If you have to leave your UPS gal behind, you'd better charge enough to make it worthwhile. Unless your client has a hottie on his end, then all bets are off.

 

[OulOat]

Charge him $475, then $200 for the "extras"

Edit
That is per date.

 

[Cattlegod]

Originally posted by: OulOat
Charge him $475, then $200 for the "extras"

Edit
That is per date.

haha

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Smackem
'Well, sir, I don't live there. All my stuff is in my parents' basement.'

The truth comes out

 

[kranky]

I wonder if it even matters what you decide to charge because if the client expected you to be there anyway, he might not be all that excited about paying anything beyond your expenses. Now that would be stupid on his part, but it wouldn't surprise me.

We had some custom software written to run on an application that costs $900. If we want them to come to our site, we pay their travel, all expenses, plus $500 a day. That's pretty cheap for on-site work, actually.

I've also had people come on-site to do training and they charged $1200 a day.

In your position I would charge $500 a day plus all expenses, and forget the free golf. He's not going to want to pay it, but the point is that you don't need to be there. It's only because the guy is apparently inept that he wants you there.

 

[Yossarian]

I had a similar situation once and it led to my best payday ever. I was quitting this management consulting company, and my last job was at a pain in the ass client in Reno. My boss didn't want to deal with them anymore so he said I could keep whatever I got from them. I ended up billing them 26 hours over 2 days and pocketed $2600.