In hiring process for a contract position at Google (marketing) - they want me to give them an hourly rate?
The position title is "marketing manager." The job description makes it seem like I'd be a legit misclassified employee.
Which is fine, those are the norm in Silicone Valley. This would be my third position where I'm basically a full-time employee without the benefits.
The issue is that I've never before worked off of an hourly rate. I've always worked off of salary. I honestly never even heard of long term contracts (this one lasts a year) for "general services" positions.
I've worked off of long term contracts before when I was basically a misclassified employee. However, I was paid a salary.
In one of the positions I was required to submit billable hours despite being contracted at an actual salaried rate. So I'd just do basic math to make sure the billable hours added up to that rate. The whole thing seemed shady and somewhat illegal because it required me to make shit up.
Anyhow, I asked if I could submit a desired yearly salary, and just have Google do the math on their end. But they said no. I have to submit a desired hourly rate. But I don't have enough variables to figure it out.
Meaning, am I going to be working 8hr days, or 10hr days? Am I required to work weekends? Do I have a "hard stop" after my agreed upon hours are up, or am required to always be on call and available. Are they going to pay me the equivalent of 40hrs a week despite the actual hours worked? Or will they legit want me to log every single working hour?
Any advice on what I should do to figure out a reasonable hourly rate without pricing myself out, or screwing myself over? Thanks in advance.
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For a reasonable hourly rate, divide your typical salary by 2080 and then I’d tack on a few more thousand for the lack of paid time off and crappy benefits of contracting. Google has a LOT of holidays and you typically can’t work them, so factor that in (it’s like 15-16 if I remember correctly).