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Travel & Salary |
| Message Name: |
I agree |
| Date Posted: |
03/10/2006 |
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depends on you. How much is it worth to you? For example, you are miserable at home and have no life. So being on the road is cool. Or you are happy at home - but going on the road is worth it because of the money. A 20% bump to me may be a 10% bump in salary to another person. $10k for an analyst is a lot of money. For a senior manager, maybe not.
I'm afraid you won't get any anwers more specific than that. |
| Message: |
As stopnik and the others have implied, traveling jobs should pay more money. In general, industry wide, IT jobs generally pay the same whether you are a permanent IT person in the IT department of a company, or you do temp IT project work at an IT services place like ACN. Some jobs pay more than others. You may leave ACN and get a 15% or 20% increase in pay or you may end up getting the same. The reverse is also true. You may leave a non-traveling job and join a place like ACN and get a 15% increase, or you may not. There's no additional pay premium just because the job is a traveling job or just because you are doing your computer programming through an IT services company instead of as a permanent employee.
As some others have pointed out here, the hours are much longer here (much, much longer) for the same base pay as you would get in a permanent job. On the flip side, you do get an per-diem when you travel out of town. There is no per-diem when you work locally, but the hours are just as long.
So, when you go on the road, you do get that little bump of another $100 - $175 a week from per-diems, but that is offset by the longer hours. So the per-hour pay is actually much less than a permanent job.
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