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Contract Engineering Fee Structure

  • Thread starter Brilliant_Marconi
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Brilliant_Marconi

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I have an associate who is looking to get into contract engineer work. Any of you currently doing this type of work willing to share your fee structure? (hourly rate, minimum hours, travel, etc).

Thanks very much.
 
You are asking some extremely personal and competitive questions. I, as a former contract engineer would hesitate to answer in a public forum ,perhaps a better approach would be to personally contact persons involved in this activity in the general area. Costs and other fees vary widely according to the type facilities, conditions thereof, and the management. In short, there are no pat answers in MHO. All the best...JBI
 
look at the hourly rate in the area for hourly or salaried engineers who work for a brioadcast entity fulltime. Then figure rouighly 2 1/2 - 3 times that hourly rate to cover expenses and 'office' type costs. Be preparedto walk away from them as aren't willing to pay. At the outset,money up front.
 
As a field service rep for two different printing press mfrs., my time was billed at about 3x to 4x of what I got paid,
plus the actual travel expenses. Billed travel time was at a lower rate.
 
littlejohn said:
look at the hourly rate in the area for hourly or salaried engineers who work for a brioadcast entity fulltime. Then figure rouighly 2 1/2 - 3 times that hourly rate to cover expenses and 'office' type costs. Be preparedto walk away from them as aren't willing to pay. At the outset,money up front.
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Set and hourly rate and stick to it. If someone tries to haggle you down, leave. Someone who understands the value of competent engineering services will not try to talk you down. Cheap clients who wind up not paying invoices will.
 
You know that when your CE charges the same hourly rate for travel that he does for on-site, he's probably in demand and probably pretty good!

I think my guy is truly committed to excellence, but I kid him that he reminds me of the mechanic in Seinfeld that is so overprotective of Jerry's car that he ends up stealing it!
 
Yes, I understood (and appreciate) the fact my question was of rather personal nature. I do repsect this group and forum. However, I also felt the group was also quite good at concealing their true identity (for those who want their identity protected). Thanks for the information.
 
CompleteGame said:
You know that when your CE charges the same hourly rate for travel that he does for on-site, he's probably in demand and probably pretty good!

I think my guy is truly committed to excellence, but I kid him that he reminds me of the mechanic in Seinfeld that is so overprotective of Jerry's car that he ends up stealing it!
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I have considered doing that to a couple of Nautel transmitters recently. :)
 
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