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> > The fastest way to come up with an hourly rate that will compensate
you
> and
> > cover taxes, etc. is to divide your yearly salary by 1,000. For
example,
> if
> > you make $50K per year, your hourly rate would be $50.
>
> Nope. Double your salary and then divide by 2. Why? Insurance,
> infrastructure, and other overhead costs. It generally costs a company
> twice your salary to employ you.
For those of you jumping all over Bill for that statement, what I think
he meant to write was "Double your salary and then divide by 1000." That
would give you a rate of $100 instead of $50.
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