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If you want to be totally, brutally, honest about it, companies should pay me a full salary for a half work week. Why? Well, take John Harrington's example (photographer). You book a one-hour shoot, for say $200, to make it an easy number to play with. Your job is to show up, set up the lights and backdrops, do the necessary makeup, get the executive portrait for the financial report (or whatever), and get out of his way. Now, the exec suddenly says, "I only have 30 minutes, so you have to get it done in that amount of time." Do you take a pay cut? No. You charge double, because to do the same work in half the time, you have to be better. If I can get my work done in 20 hours/week, and another engineer takes 40 hours/week to accomplish the same task, I should be getting the higher hourly rate, not the same hourly rate. |