| Topic Name: |
Travel & Salary |
| Message Name: |
I disagree |
| 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: |
I think the base is very low to start. So even if you add the travel perks (if you want to call it that) then it is still under a normal salary somewhere else.
Plus those FF miles, per diem are not guaranteed while the non traveling job that maybe outside ACN that pays a higher salary is guaranteed. There were times I would travel and times I would work locally. So to me I prefer to take the guarantee base and per diems shouldn't be accounted as part of the base no matter how many hours you work. Both per diems, FF miles, hotel points and OT should be extra. Remember just as some people see travel as a benefit there are tons of people with family, etc that see travel as nuisance. So it all depends on your view. No matter what I prefer the guaranteed salary with bonus than low base and then getting on a project with OT, and travel to compensate your salary. I can pay for my own vacations thank you very much!
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