I'm not in the US, but working for an American company, I started as a contractor from a big firm 2 years ago, I'm starting next week as a FTE (with a 20% salar

I'm not in the US, but working for an American company, I started as a contractor from a big firm 2 years ago, I'm starting next week as a FTE (with a 20% salary increase). During that time, two other contractors were hired and the rest (a dozen out of the 60 people in our office) had their contract not renewed as some project were moved to other offices/finished. Here, there was no difference on how FTEs and contractors were treated (including company outings, which was very nice) with team composed of both FTEs and contractors. This situation is close to illegal here (I think) as contractor are supposed to be brought only for a specific job that can't be done by a FTE; but since it worked for everyone, no-one is complaining.