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I am a long-time dev contractor (not with Google), and I am sick of staffing middlemen that keep 40%+ of my hourly rate and hold the money an extra month, simpl
by davinic 7y ago
I am a long-time dev contractor (not with Google), and I am sick of staffing middlemen that keep 40%+ of my hourly rate and hold the money an extra month, simply because they had access to the client's contractor system. It's robbery.
- Yhippa 7y agoCan you go work for the client and capture that money for yourself?
- babaganoosh89 7y agoUsually not because large clients are worried about contractors being classified as employees.
- msbarnett 7y agoThe IRS has made that extremely difficult for software contractors, and most companies will prefer to avoid the high risk of an individual contractor being reclassified as an employee.
- scottostler 7y agoYes of course, but companies will prefer to work with middlemen rather than directly employing individual contractors because it makes legal and accounting easier. There’s often a lot of hurdles to employ an individual directly, like requiring the contractor to have a million dollar insurance policy say Seems like a lot of money for that, but companies are willing to pay it
- davinic 7y agoI'm a corp to corp subcontractor and aside from getting nearly half of my rate taken, I keep and pay for my own liability and e&o insurance.