Jeff Moden (10/22/2015)
Grant Fritchey (10/22/2015)
It has to be in the contract that negotiate with the company. I have three rates, a friend's rate, an at-home rate, and then a travel rate plus expenses. If I have to travel to your site, you're paying for my airplane flight, hotel, meals & car rental. This is negotiated up front. I've had companies that want me to just charge a flat fee, so I calculate the cost of travels and add that to my rate for the time they want me there.Just curious. Since travel can sometimes be lengthy, do you charge for the actual travel time?
I have not. Which means in terms of time, for a three day engagement once, I ate a day of my time flying out the day before. Then I made sure I had a flight back the evening of day 3 in order to get home ASAP and reduce my wasted time on the road.
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