[BC] Making engineering pay

[Dana Puopolo]

Exactly! See my other post.
Guess what though? EVERYTHING ELSE HAS GONE UP!!!!
Meaning: the average contract engineer is MUCH WORSE off then he was almost
two decades ago!

Discussion??

-D

------ Original Message ------
Received: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 03:48:29 PM EDT
From: "Ron Cole" <rondcole at gmail.com>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: Re: [BC] Making engineering pay

Its depressing to see that contact engineering rates have not gone up in
over 15 years.
I was getting $45-50 / Hour in 1990.

Ron

On 7/23/06, Robert Meuser <Robertm at broadcast.net> wrote:
>
> Radio as a hobby can be fun. It removes one from day to day stress and
> permits
> doing only the projects that please them.  That being said, if the person
> doing
> this is doing it at depressed rates, he is driving the overall market
> down. If
> the person is doing this part time work as a few hours for a decent wage,
> then
> that is a whole different discussion. For contract part time work you
> should be
> asking at the very least $40 per hour and more like $50-70 or a set number
> of
> hours for a monthly fee. If one is setting the floor for the market, it is
> a
> disservice to all.
>
> R
>
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