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Subject:RE: Recruiters without clues From:"Andrea C. Carrero" <andrea -at- wordtex -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 9 Mar 2006 18:32:37 -0500
That would be because they're charging the client $45 an hour and making a
profit of $30 an hour because they (apparently unlike the rest of us) "have
overhead." :-)
Personally, I don't mind someone tacking onto my rate to make some money,
but more than a 20% markup is completely unreasonable!
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