[kwlug-disc] consulting fees

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

Doug!

Congratulations ...

This is fantastic. You now experience the ecstasy of turning a hobby open
source project into a job. Thrilling and rewarding.

Regarding the rate you should ask for, it depends on the length of the
contract. The shorter it is, the higher your hourly rate.

If it is 6 months or less, then use your current hourly equivalent at your
day job, and multiply by 1.5X in USD as a starting point for negotiations.
This compensates for the lack of benefits, pension, EI, ....etc.

Hope it works out as you want it to ...

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 10:29 PM, doug moen <doug at moens.org> wrote:

> This is the really cool part. They want to pay me to work on my open
> source project, Curv. They sell a very specialized CAD product, and they
> want a new, more powerful geometry kernel for the next generation of the
> product. So they want to investigate whether Curv could be used for that.
> For that, I need to extend my geometry kernel and make it "industrial
> strength". I'll retain ownership of the new Curv geometry kernel and it
> remains open source. None of their proprietary "special sauce" will be in
> the open source project: that all lives in the application layer above the
> kernel.
>
> On 22 February 2018 at 22:20, Chamunks <chamunks at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This thread is eye-opening.  What are they looking to have you do?
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 1:49 AM, William Park via kwlug-disc <
>> kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Then,  salary x 1.5.
>>> --
>>> William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 08:34:34PM -0500, doug moen wrote:
>>> > It's a full time contract, with option to become an employee. The
>>> company
>>> > is in New York city. It's a senior software engineering position.
>>> Thanks
>>> > for the advice.
>>> >
>>> > On 22 February 2018 at 07:31, Kyle Spaans <3lucid at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > Is it a full-time gig or are you on a short term contract? For short
>>> term
>>> > > consulting people usually say ask for ~3x what your normal full-time
>>> salary
>>> > > would be. This is to make up for time when you aren???t working and
>>> are
>>> > > searching for the next contract.
>>> > >
>>> > > If it???s full-time you could check Glassdoor.com to see what
>>> salaries are
>>> > > like in the city where the company is located. If they are from the
>>> SFBA
>>> > > you don???t want to end up underpricing yourself! I???d say Dave???s
>>> suggestion
>>> > > of USD 100-150 is a good baseline, but I suspect you can charge more.
>>> > >
>>> > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 2:41 PM Dave Cramer <davecramer at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > >> depends on what you are doing. I was getting 100 to 150 USD/hr
>>> > >>
>>> > >> What kind of work ?
>>> > >>
>>> > >> Dave Cramer
>>> > >>
>>> > >> On 21 February 2018 at 14:16, doug moen <doug at moens.org> wrote:
>>> > >>
>>> > >>> I'm about to start working as a software development consultant
>>> for an
>>> > >>> American client. They have asked me to name an hourly rate.
>>> Anybody have
>>> > >>> experience or pointers to figure out how much to charge?
>>> > >>>
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