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Consultant and contractor average salary and rate surveys, plus links to salary calculators, comparison, information, negotiation and more.
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Temping
From your About.com Guide: If you're a recent grad, between jobs, thinking about changing careers, independent or adventurous, then temping might be right for you.
Working as an Independent Contractor
From your About.com Guide: Tired of being a wage slave? Here are the pros, cons, and how to get started as an independent contractor.
Consulting
Articles and salary tables for consultants, courtesy of CareerJournal.
Consulting and Contracting
Link to salary surveys across the US from JobStar, a free service of the California public library system.
IT Rate Survey
At Dice.com, discover the salaries full-time employees make and the going rates contractors charge for their skills.
The Real Salary Survey
Rates charged by independent IT contractors and consultants, and salaries for temp and direct IT employees.
Salary Ticker
ComputerJobs.com updates the "ticker" hourly with salaries and contractor rates submitted to their survey from across the USA. Not really a ticker, but a pretty cool idea anyway. If you leave the window open for awhile, refresh or reload it to make sure it displays the latest info. Click the job title links for more info.
Salary.com
A one-stop compensation center with free and fee-based services. This one is free: Select Consulting Services to calculate median salaries for various job titles, and also view job descriptions. For national averages, leave location blank.

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