[tptacek]

A committed or indefinite term of employment is itself a benefit, so if you're going to work on a temporary basis you should expect contractor returns, not FTE comp; revise your baseline up 150%-200%.

Nobody does this, of course, but then provisional employment is a silly idea to begin with.

[kasey_junk]

It has to be more than that. 150-200 is what your rate is _if you have a pipeline for more work_. If you don’t, you need to account for building the pipeline. So if a non-contract job wants me to work like a contractor, they have to account for the risk they’ve asked me to assume.

FWIW I came up with a provisional employment scheme that I thought would work at a job where I was responsible for hiring pipelines. It involved making an annual bonus (in an industry that was bonus driven) garaunteed and accelerating it so it was 50% sign on bonus and 50% delivered at 6 months. The company balked. Because provisional screening is a very good mechanism. Its must more expensive than hire and fire, at least on paper.