Recession rates

[Paul Makepeace]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Jonathan Stowe
<jns at integration-house.com>wrote:

> 2009/3/10 Paul Makepeace <paulm at paulm.com>:
> > Has anyone found the recession/depression affecting contracting rates? I
> was
> > surprised to have a recruiter recently suggest a bunch of candidates
> > for £375/day
> > (each :-)). This seems on the high side, even outside of the economic
> blues.
> > I guess what also tweaked me was that every single one of these guys was
> > going for the exact same rate whereas without a doubt they are not all
> > equally skilled. While I don't expect we have accurate programmer pricing
> > models the obvious inefficiency of this market mildly irritated me...
>
> I take it that you have asked to have your salary reduced so as to
> better reflect the economic conditions then?


That has happened, yes. Thanks for asking tho :-)

P



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