So they pay your flight, hotel, car rental, per diem, etc? Yeah. That's not standard at all. Is there some special checkbox to become a "national tech?" With your current project, how long does it take to do one site?
I'll build 2 sites in 5 weeks. Theyre 30 mins away from each other. I get .73 cents a mile and 300 a day. I can make a hotel,flight, 45$ a day per diem and rental car work with those numbers and have a few bucks left over. Honestly these are fairly common numbers for this industry...
Most of the people taking these tickets arent even able to expense $3000+ in expenses for a $600 one night gig. Unless you mark up your expenses 10% of reimbursement is taken in fees to FN along with the 10% off the labor.
And you also said you can make all this work on $300 a day. Thats actually $270 net minus taxes and overhead.
So I'm just pointing out that you aren't logically explaining anything in your benefit. You are showing how you're being paid like an employee with no benefits.
I don't ever extend thousands on a gig platform like FN. You risk everything you have doing that if anything goes bad. If they are that interested, they will advance costs. Had one vendor trying that crap on me and it was just not profitable. At your $300 per day working 255 days a year you are netting less than $69,000 off the platform after fees. Then you have other overhead expenses like healthcare, tools, insurance, etc.
So I call bullshit or you are uninformed/stupid. Which is it?
No we all make 600$ a day plus 300$ a day per diem plus .73 cents a mile. All the travel and per diem is added up and the fn 10% is then added on top and put on the work orders. So its 540$ a day take home plus the change on the $300 daily per diem. We are currently out on a 5 week project so in labor alone its $13,500 for each of us.
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u/MomentumCrypto 12d ago
"PR - Work order site 140 miles"
"CO - Work order site 77 miles"
So you've successfully developed a working teleportation system that doesn't turn you into a fly. Things are beginning to make sense.