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Consulting Salary - What Can Your Business Afford?
By Joshua Feinberg
Consulting salaries are an important factor in your ability to hire the type of talent you will need as your expands. You will probably do much of the work yourself, but as your scales up you will need to employ others to help you. The consulting salary and payment scheme you offer will be key to attracting and retaining top talent.
You need to ask yourself very early on in your operations, "Will I be able to afford the kind of technical person that has the skills that are needed for sweet spot clients?" If your is only generating enough revenue to cover a consulting salary of $27,000 per year, you might be in for a shocking answer.
Consulting Salaries and Scenario Analysis
When we think about consulting salaries we have to use the triple billing rule: 1/3 of revenue goes to sales and marketing, the second third goes to taxes, insurance, and administrative expenses, the
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final third includes consulting salaries as well as all the other expenses.
A great tool for figuring out potential consulting salaries is an Excel spreadsheet set up for scenario analysis.
-Run different hourly billing rates through the analysis.
-Allocate the overall revenue into the general thirds.
-Take out a reasonable amount for general businesses from the final third
Analyze what is left for consulting salaries
You should try to run billing rates between $75 per hour to $125 per hour and come up with a rate that will support a consulting salary of $40,000 and up.
The Bottom Line on Consulting Salaries
The overall revenue of your must be able to support a consulting salary that is sufficient to attract good, solid employees. A some point you will likely need to hire some help. If yo use the Triple Billing Rule you should be able to set an hourly billing rate such that you can afford to pay an attractive consulting salary to yourself and your future employees.
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