Generally, agreed, at least the first time. I was being paid.. $17/hr and being billed out at $100/hr. I moved to a company starting at $22/hr, being billed out at $150-$175/hr.
The 'hourly' was just a breakdown of salaried - sometimes worked more than 40hrs, never paid for it. And I also get that people aren't 100% billable, you have to build in downtime to the salary, etc. I get it. But I do know in one year I billed out about 1600 hours at at least $150/hr - asked for a $10k raise, and was denied. So I left.
In some situations since then I appreciate the 'team' model a bit more - that's what I was pitched in my 'no raise' reply. "We're a team, etc" But in this particular project, I was doing 95% of the work. I trained my replacements during my notice, and a month later the client moved over to me anyway, because I literally was the project.
Note to agency companies - don't ever let one large project become the sole domain of one employee. For various reasons, this is not good business.
Well... it was decent, but it was mostly maintenance at that point. Actually, we rebuilt the system in a different platform that was much easier to build and easier to maintain, so within a year there was far less work to do. Worked myself out of a gig, but had a happy client...
The 'hourly' was just a breakdown of salaried - sometimes worked more than 40hrs, never paid for it. And I also get that people aren't 100% billable, you have to build in downtime to the salary, etc. I get it. But I do know in one year I billed out about 1600 hours at at least $150/hr - asked for a $10k raise, and was denied. So I left.
In some situations since then I appreciate the 'team' model a bit more - that's what I was pitched in my 'no raise' reply. "We're a team, etc" But in this particular project, I was doing 95% of the work. I trained my replacements during my notice, and a month later the client moved over to me anyway, because I literally was the project.
Note to agency companies - don't ever let one large project become the sole domain of one employee. For various reasons, this is not good business.