Question: How much do consultants typically make?

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UNCjigga

UNCjigga

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Good God, today has been a most horrible Monday.

I came into work early today (8:00 AM) because I had a lot of work to do (client work + designing a survey instrument.) Well, the way it looks now I'm gonna still be at work past 8:00 PM!!! Yes, that's 12 hours with a lunch that I ate while working. I haven't even taken my usual nef breaks on AT today (had a few one-liner posts here and there, that's about it!) I feel like crap cause aside from a few bathroom breaks I've been sitting in this chair all day.

Should I be making more than 26k/year as a consultant working these kinda hours???
 
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Originally posted by: uncJIGGA
Good God, today has been a most horrible Monday.

I came into work early today (8:00 AM) because I had a lot of work to do (client work + designing a survey instrument.) Well, the way it looks now I'm gonna still be at work past 8:00 PM!!! Yes, that's 12 hours with a lunch that I ate while working. I haven't even taken my usual nef breaks on AT today (had a few one-liner posts here and there, that's about it!) I feel like crap cause aside from a few bathroom breaks I've been sitting in this chair all day.

Should I be making more than 26k/year as a consultant working these kinda hours???
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Yes.

Edit: but it's a job ;)
 
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Originally posted by: zCypher
Originally posted by: uncJIGGA
Good God, today has been a most horrible Monday.

I came into work early today (8:00 AM) because I had a lot of work to do (client work + designing a survey instrument.) Well, the way it looks now I'm gonna still be at work past 8:00 PM!!! Yes, that's 12 hours with a lunch that I ate while working. I haven't even taken my usual nef breaks on AT today (had a few one-liner posts here and there, that's about it!) I feel like crap cause aside from a few bathroom breaks I've been sitting in this chair all day.

Should I be making more than 26k/year as a consultant working these kinda hours???
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Yes.

Edit: but it's a job ;)
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Ditto.
 
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Spac3d

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The consultants I know make at least 10x what you make. Granted, none of them are in the computer field.
 
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AgentEL

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26K? I heard Accenture consultants get around $30K... what was your degree in
 
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Yossarian

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Originally posted by: uncJIGGA
Should I be making more than 26k/year as a consultant working these kinda hours???
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Yep, especially since your company is probably billing the client more than $100/hr for your time.
 
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Double Trouble

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There's no such thing as a standard rate that consultants make. It depends completely on your skills, experience, and your ability to market your services. I've seen consultants get $600 plus per hour.......
 
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UNCjigga

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Originally posted by: tagej
There's no such thing as a standard rate that consultants make. It depends completely on your skills, experience, and your ability to market your services. I've seen consultants get $600 plus per hour.......
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My billing rate is around $250/hour, but to be honest I'm not a full-time consultant here. I mostly do market research and analysis but I get pulled into projects on the back-end side (client rarely sees me) when we have big deliverables due...
 
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My billing rate is around $250/hour, but to be honest I'm not a full-time consultant here. I mostly do market research and analysis but I get pulled into projects on the back-end side (client rarely sees me) when we have big deliverables due...
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Doesn't that just make you all happy and fuzzy inside! You're company is bending these guys over a barrel for $250 an hour and then in turn giving you a whopping $13 an hour for your efforts.

I've played that game...not any more though.
 
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Double Trouble

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Yep, that's the part that sucks, your skills are really worth a lot more than what you get for them, but the company through which you get that job/project/assignment takes most of the $$$.....
 
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Originally posted by: AgentEL
26K? I heard Accenture consultants get around $30K... what was your degree in
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WTF? Here in NoVA, I've heard of Accenture consultants (with 3-4 years of experience) billing at $139 an hour (yes, this is fact.) Let's assume the consultant makes $60 of that bill rate. That is $124,800 per year before taxes. :)
 
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Originally posted by: vi_edit
My billing rate is around $250/hour, but to be honest I'm not a full-time consultant here. I mostly do market research and analysis but I get pulled into projects on the back-end side (client rarely sees me) when we have big deliverables due...
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Doesn't that just make you all happy and fuzzy inside! You're company is bending these guys over a barrel for $250 an hour and then in turn giving you a whopping $13 an hour for your efforts.

I've played that game...not any more though.
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I'd find another agency to represent you. They could bill the company 1/2 of the current rate ($125 per hour) and still pay you $62.50. Damn nice money per hour. Plus, we all know that consultants don't limit themselves to 8 hour days - unless the employer restricts the hours. ;)

I'm surprised that the company where you are currently placed doesn't hire you. They might have to pay off the consulting company to get you out of your contract, but they would still be ahead of the game - even if they bumped your salary to $50K. Personally, if someone is skilled and receiving only $26K per year, I'd be pounding the pavement looking for another place to work - especially after realizing that the consulting company was making $224 per hour off of me. :Q
 
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DaveSimmons

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I've earned $75 - 125 hour for moonlighting building InstallShield setups, some ASP web programming, and some maintenance programming for the company that bought out my old employer. Most of it was specialized work though, not something you could step into as an undergrad CS senior.
 
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Originally posted by: wje
Originally posted by: AgentEL
26K? I heard Accenture consultants get around $30K... what was your degree in
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WTF? Here in NoVA, I've heard of Accenture consultants (with 3-4 years of experience) billing at $139 an hour (yes, this is fact.) Let's assume the consultant makes $60 of that bill rate. That is $124,800 per year before taxes. :)
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from my experience in consulting, if you bill $139 (which is not very much, entry level in big cities bill around that), you are definitely not taking in $60 out of the $139. the accenture people i know in nyc/nj, philly, la were making 55-70/year.
 
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Originally posted by: tagej
There's no such thing as a standard rate that consultants make. It depends completely on your skills, experience, and your ability to market your services. I've seen consultants get $600 plus per hour.......
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I have too. But, then again, the individual also took off about 6 months out of the year so he could play golf. Ahh ... the good life.
 
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