Enter title: In-House Contract Work.
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- mbradyclark
Enter topic: I have an opportunity for the above, am new to this angle. Anyone have any tips?
- edd-e0
does your contract state everything you will be doing?? does it state that anything past what the contract states will be added as another fee??
dont let the client take advantage of you. especially if you are going to be in house and under a contract.
when you are there under their watch yo umay be treated the same as their current staff, when in fact you are completely different.
make the contracts work for you. as they will do everything in their power to have it work for them.
- mbradyclark0
Thanks. E. I am meeting with the company on Monday to spell out specifics. Currently working out what i want to propose as my hourly wage at the moment. I am used to doing work off site. as this is a fulltime gig, my other current freelance work will be put off (at least until evening hours) and want to factor in that with my hourly. Really appreciate your 2cents.
- MrD0
its basically full time with hourly
work as long as you can.
make sure you tell them that you will bill sitting around doing nothing hours because you are there. some companies will tell you that when you are waiting for work from someone, you cant charge them. this can be dangerous cause you could be sitting there and not do anything for a day and you wont be able to bill.
say that once you are in the building, you will bill.
also, if they try to sleze out of that, try day rates.
- edd-e0
you can adjust the hourly to a per project based salary which may be better for you as you will be in-house you will be seen as one of their current staff...
i recently learned that if you charge per project that you are no longer looked at the same way as you were above only because the client is now looking at your hours and they may way to deduct here and there for your lunch and travel time, all which you can charge for.
you are not gettingtheir benefit packages thet their full time staff receives, but yet the client will look at you jsut the same since you are charging on an hourly basis.
i suggest to try to work out a plan on the per project basis as well...this way you can easily sate a lot more detail of what you are actually going to give the client instead of them barking orders at you when ever they please. try to limit what you are offering and then charge them for each new action going forward...you can bill them per hour or per job, either way is fine.
but since your time will be looked at the same as their regular staff, what prevents them from firing you just as easily?? contract or not..
if it is a per job basis, you can allocate the amount of money to start before in the middle and in the end which is 3 numbers over the weekly hourly end rate, which their acconting department will most likely try and say your math is wrong and you added lunch and this and that ...
just a thought...
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