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How much should you get paid by the hourly for doing IT Support working only 1 day out of the week?

If you were to accept a position to work 1 day out of the week. 8 hours. Doing IT Support for home office users and regular office users. How much should one be paid??
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opher | 2 years, 4 months ago
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At that level (20% time) there may be few advantages to accepting an employee position. It may be best for you to contract with the customer as an independent contractor. A friend of mine does this sort of work for a living in the greater Washington DC area and charges $110/hour. In general, contractors charge hourly about 2 to 3 times what a full-time salary would be including benefits, divided by 2000 hours per year. Thus, if you'd expect a full-time salary to be $80k, and about 25% on top of that in benefits, for a total of $100k, divide by 2000 to get an employee hourly rate of about $50. For a small job, you might charge $150/hour, while for a contract for tens or hundreds of hours you might go down to $100 (all numbers are for illustration purposes only and may not be appropriate for your location, experience, or exact type of work).

The pros of working as a contractor are that you're not bound by any conflict of interest or conflict of commitment issues, while you may be asked to sign an NDA (non-disclosure agreement) there should be no issues of non-competition, you get to set and change your rates as you find more work with higher-paying clients, you get to deduct your contract-work related expenses as well as e.g. expenses relating to marketing your services, equipment expenses, mileage to/from client locations, etc.

The cons are mainly that the customer can terminate the contract usually with little or no notice and for any or no reason (however, they could also fire you as an employee), and that you'd be responsible for paying the employer side of social security as well as the employee side. Make sure to figure that extra cost into your pricing.

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opher | 2 years, 4 months ago Report

The accepted nominal number of hours for a full time position is 2000 per year. This assumes 40 hours/week and 50 weeks per year (2 weeks off). The number is not exact, but is a useful approximation.

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worldflavors | 2 years, 4 months ago Report

Nice reply.

Just a question, how do you get the 2000 hours equation?

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anoharjohn | 2 years, 4 months ago
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The standard rate for this line of job is 5$ to 12$ per hour/8 hrs multiply into 4 weeks you will get your amount . but actually when we are offered a part time job these things never happen but some exemptions are there .But when we are approaching for a part time job the wage may be compermised to get the job

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worldflavors | 2 years, 4 months ago Report

I doubt that is a standard rate. That rate would be really low. and it also depends on your experience, and what area you live in. If your getting paid that low, it might be a entry level, customer service position.

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