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Machiavellian on 18 October 2022
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KLXVER said:
DonFerrari said:

Never seem any right wing, no matter how extreme, saying that the fair wage is decided solely by employer. At most I have seem they say "if you think the wage is bad don't accept the work and look for another one", and this based on free market and finite resources as if company only pay the bare minimum they will only get the worse employees as his competitors will pay a little more to get the more talented. But that is besides the point.

It just seems klxver doesn't understand the difference between being full time employee that gets his Weekly wage (based on a year wage), that can be or not enough - another discussion -, and work you hire a specialist for a short time and those usually are much much higher in cost per hour but a lot lower on yearly cost. The basic idea is that most of those specialists won't be working full time all year (if they did that VA would be making 4k*50 = 200k a year, which is more than 4 times the average you pointed). Very few VAs will be fully occupied (and those certainly would be much more than 4k a week of payment).

It is very similar to other services you hire. When you hire a plumber you won't pay 15 USD/h of the work he do, or perhaps 5 USD to solve your issue as if you would fraction the minimum wage, nope they are going to request you a minimum fee plus a hourly fee that is much higher than weekly based wages.

So because some VAs dont work many hours each year, they should get ridiculous money so they can live of it? Its just ridiculous. Its not a full time job. So yes, getting 250$ per hour is alot. Thats like 10 times higher than your average wage. I mean where do you get the idea that VAs should be paid much higher for way fewer hours of work? Just because its not certain if they will get another gig? Well people who only work 3 days a week should get paid the same as someone working 5 days a week, because sure why not... Silly.

Probably because specialist always gets paid better than your average wage.  This is pretty much standard especially in contracting work.  You are paying for the expertise of the person and their ability to produce a high end product or service.  I have worked a number of consulting jobs and you are always paid at a much higher wage then the employees working at the company.  If you do not understand the business I believe you should do some research on the subject instead of just believing that what you believe is fare is how the industry works.  

I will say that depending on the work you do usually depends on the hourly wage.  There have been a number of situations I was only paid 70 bucks an hour and for the same job I was paid 450.  Each situation was represented on how important my work was to the specific project.  

The main issue I see here is the flat rate.  It speaks volumes that something was not right.  Anytime a client is trying to get you to sign a flat rate especially if its low means its going to be a nightmare project.