Employer offering me a lot more $$$ than I asked for?

Some companies have a rigid wage/salary structure. $30/hr could just be the standard pay for someone in your job with your experience level. I wouldn't read too much into it.

alright, interesting. I did not realize that.

pay scale wrote:

Some companies have a rigid wage/salary structure. $30/hr could just be the standard pay for someone in your job with your experience level. I wouldn't read too much into it.

1099 position or employee?

Did you first say you'd work for $25/hr, or did they start out with a lower number than that? If the former, I would advise you not to do that in the future. Let them give you an offer, and if it's too low, that's when you try to negotiate. In this case, they could have just been like, "Well, we normally pay a guy $30/hr to do this job, but he says he'll work for $25/hr, so I guess we'll just pay him that."

What kind of work do you do? $30/hr is quite a bit more than I make. haha.

well no benefits of being a full-time permanent employee hired by the company, since it's contract hire.

Guppy wrote:

Did you first say you'd work for $25/hr, or did they start out with a lower number than that? If the former, I would advise you not to do that in the future. Let them give you an offer, and if it's too low, that's when you try to negotiate. In this case, they could have just been like, "Well, we normally pay a guy $30/hr to do this job, but he says he'll work for $25/hr, so I guess we'll just pay him that."

What kind of work do you do? $30/hr is quite a bit more than I make. haha.

How many hours are you contracted for? Lot of real 1099 contractor versus employee issues in the workplace.

I remember billing 30 bucks an hour but I was young and many guys were dressed in long hair and bellbottoms.

He's patronizing you. Walk away and go to someone who'll pay you what you're worth.

If they want you to pay for your equipment upfront with moneygram run.

I told a contractor to bump up their hourly rate that was doing work for us. The guy was cheating himself and we were still saving money next to our other options. I wanted him to be happy and comfortable, so he'd stick around and get preferential treatment. (He did work for others too.)

We treat people fair, and expect the same in return.

Could be many reasons. Are you working for a recruiter on contract work for their client? Because then they have to report what you make as well as what they put on top for their cut, in which case saying you make $15/hour may make the client think you're not qualified.

Or, if they're just good people and they know you had no idea what you were doing when you negotiated, then they bumped you up a bit.

I don't know what you're doing, but my first contract position I negotiated $59/hour, which ends up being about equal to a FTE w/ benefits, etc.