Automated Download Delivery

We've created a new, shopping cart-equipped Phlaunt.com site to handle the sale and delivery of our book and booklet downloads. Now you'll get your download as soon as your payment clears through PayPal. Visit Our New Download Site HERE!

If you'd like to sell your own downloads using your own Phlaunt.com site, please email us at spamadmin@realrates.com after deleting the colored word from the email address.

Now You Can Order our Books and Downloads Using PayPal

In response to many customers heightened concerns about credit card security, we have redone our order pages so that you can now order our products with PayPal. Our order page will calculate a total and then send you on to PayPal to complete your order.

Click Here To order books with PayPal.

Click Here To order downloads with PayPal.

Exciting New Feature: Dynamic Statistical Analysis!

Now you can generate statistics for the data that interests you. We've added a new, free feature that lets you specify the time period, and the characteristics of the Real Rate Survey rate or Real Salary Survey salary reports you want to see analysed.

To visit the Real Rate Survey Dynamic Statistics Feature click HERE

To visit the Real Salary Survey Dynamic Statistics Feature click HERE.

Let us know what you think of it by emailing us at mailspam@realrates.com after deleting the colored word from the email address.

More Survey Data Now Searchable Online

To make our surveys more useful to our visitors, we've made more historical data available online. When you search the Real Rate Survey or the Real Salary Survey, the data you can search now goes all the way back to January 1, 2002.

We're at the Top in Google

Despite the slowdown in the consulting industry, Realrates.com continues to get a steady stream of visitors looking for consulting rate and salary data, and for information about computer consulting.

This site comes up as one of the top listings in following Google searches: "consulting rates"and "computer consultant."

Why should you care? Because the constant stream of new traffic to this site means that our data is constantly being refreshed.

Other salary sites hide where they get their data and present you with doctored figures of no known provenance. We show you all the details: what skills, where, what industry, what job responsibilities, how many years the of experience go with the rate, what degrees, and even tax status and whether the rate was brokered or not.

As always, you can search all our current years' rates at the Real Rate Survey Search page. If you like what you see and you are currently working a contract or a full time job, please consider contributing your rate data or contributing your salary data.

Earnings Survey for Writers

Have you been thinking about supplementing your income with magazine articles or books? Check out what you can expect to earn with our Authors Compensation Survey. We know there are lots of tech writers who visit this site. If you're one of them, please consider adding your information to this new survey too!

How Our Surveys Work

We are getting an increasing amount of email asking us to "please add rates for [your specialty goes here] to your survey." However, the way our survey works, the only rates that get added to it are the rates that working contractors contribute using our Survey Form. If people in certain specialties do not send us rates, there is no way we can get rate information about that specialty for our survey.

By the same token, if you can't find the rate information you are looking for using our Survey Search emailing us will not help. All our rates are viewable using the search.

Because are rates are not solicited from managers or extracted with bribes of free hardware (like those of competing surveys) they are likely to be more accurate than those found on competing surveys. But because they come only from unprompted contractor contributions it is important that those of you who appreciate the Real Rate Survey remember to contribute your rates and that you tell other contractors about the survey so that they will contribute too!

Please Contribute to the Correct Survey!

If you are paid by the hour please contribute your rates to our Rate Survey not the Salary Survey. The Salary Survey is only for reporting jobs that pay an annual salary, not for W-2 work that pays by the hour. We keep having to throw out a couple of hourly rates each week because they were sent to the Salary survey. We can't move these contributions to the Rate survey because the Salary Survey collects slightly different data.

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