Gosh. Don't play games. You'll get a bad rep with the agencies and never get work.
Figure out what you're worth and ask that amount with the understanding that 1099'ers need to ask for about 70% more to cover for expenses that FTE's would not..
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row. First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code: ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.