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In my experience, with C2H you typically earn more in the contract phase than you would with a base salary, which is helpful in covering benefits or out of pock
by katzgrau 6y ago
In my experience, with C2H you typically earn more in the contract phase than you would with a base salary, which is helpful in covering benefits or out of pocket expenses. Maybe that's not always the case, but salaried employees usually earn 80% or less what their contract counterparts do.
And you kind of have to bomb the contract phase to not be given the offer, unless there are other circumstances at play (budgets, pandemics, etc). Hang with the team at lunch or after work if they do that, make code contributions asap, and be the kind of person any team would want to have.
C2H usually just makes it easier for them to drop you if you're (surprisingly) not a good fit - and after that kind of time and money investment, they definitely don't want to do that.
- rsweeney21 6y agoThis is correct. Company pay much more per hour when you are on contract because they don't have to cover FICA, insurance, etc.
- SkyPuncher 6y ago> Maybe that's not always the case, but salaried employees usually earn 80% or less what their contract counterparts do. That's because the employer is covering significant costs on behalf of the employe. A fully-loaded FTE typically costs 30% to 40% more than they're base salary. Contractors need to make more because they're covering all of those things themselves.
- katzgrau 6y agoI agree, which is part of why C2H isn't as bad of a deal as the parent thread is implying