| Topic Name: |
Travel & Salary |
| Message Name: |
what about the network + visibility |
| Date Posted: |
03/10/2006 |
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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. |
| Message: |
what i heard from other folks who moved on from ACN & Bearing point is: They got executive level positions etc with the help of experience in these big 4 firms and the connections they have established for them.
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