Timeline for Most effective way to increase programmer salary besides just doing your job?
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| Apr 13, 2015 at 14:55 | comment | added | Michael Brown | Your goal should be to find your own clients rather than going through a third party vendor. What you're doing now is known as Staff Augmentation and isn't necessarily the best situation. In many cases clients look at staff aug contractors as less valuable than employees (even though they spend more on them). It's difficult but finding your own work is more desirable than going through a third party. | |
| Apr 13, 2015 at 2:18 | comment | added | T. Webster | As an independent-consultant, how are you treated by your client? For my 1st job, I was a "consultant" (or an outsourced team) and we "consultants" were assigned to a client that gave us horrid development environments. | |
| May 23, 2011 at 20:21 | comment | added | Michael Brown | One book I read was Million Dollar Consulting amazon.com/dp/0071622101 It provides a lot about strategies for consulting (cut to the chase, fix priced contracts should be bread and butter, hourly rates make the client feel they have more control over how you use your time plus if you're good, it's easier to justify a fixed price that gives you an hourly rate that's obscene). | |
| May 23, 2011 at 12:12 | comment | added | T. Webster | I'm considering this, but at this stage in my career I'm not confident enough to do that. Know any good resources to begin learning on how to go as an independent programmer consultant? Is managing the extra administrivia i.e IRS forms a lot more difficult? | |
| May 22, 2011 at 11:47 | history | answered | Michael Brown | CC BY-SA 3.0 |