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On May 25, 2015 8:26 PM, "Peter Scott" <<a href="mailto:peter@psdt.com">peter@psdt.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 5/25/15 8:16 PM, Mark Hedges wrote:<br>
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>> Right, I'd be a W-2 employee of a contracting agency. No benefits. The agency takes like 35-45% of the income.<br>
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> Is this a job or indentured servitude? Are you required to shop at a company store?<br>
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> I've had an intermediate contractor that I subbed through to avoid dealing with onerous paperwork from the prime. Not an employer, but yours doesn't sound much like one either. They skimmed 10% for the service of turning a monthly invoice into a check. I thought that was excessive.</p>
<p>I would tend to doubt that they actually told you the truth about that.</p>
<p>Probably what you were told, technically, was that the recruiter who found you the job got 10%. And they got nothing else, no base salary. Entry-level recruiters have a hard time of it. But what was actually happening was the company was taking a lion's share of an additional 20-30%, all hush hush. I'd bet you signed something saying you would not ask the end company how much they were paying, and that the end company signed a contract agreeing to not ask you how much you were making. That is usually how they play this game.</p>
<p>Mark <br>
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