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14k week rate. We do infosec consulting. High end boutique. App sec, pen testing, reversing, IoT/device hacking etc.
If you don't mind me asking - How many people involved per job, and was that 14k per person or all inclusive.
Cloud security reviews and audits, either by account/resource numbers which has a minimum of $500 for a single account with a reasonable number of resources or by the hour ($500) for which I have a 4 hour minimum. The small biz stuff is a breeze to audit and create reports on so I keep the lower rate available. I also do insider threat specific IR work which is typically done on retainer and starts at $10k but averag…
Develop complete products of healthy complexity. Very wide range - enterprise backends, complex multimedia front ends, device control, firmware etc. etc. Located in Toronto, Canada. $100/hr or better say around $200K/year give or take as each contract is rather long term engagement. Typical would be 6-12 month first version with restricting functionality. Year for maturing. Another year support, transition to mainten…
- Young eng in the GTA
I do occasional consulting in cryptography and security design, and anything related to FreeBSD/EC2. $300/hour with discounts for open source, startups based in Canada, longer engagements, and anything which particularly piques my interest.
You could probably charge a good bit more. Our customers are at 14k week rate for good quality pen testing, app sec, device hacking, sec eng, red teams etc. Edit: and I know friends at big firm with crypto services specialty and they charge a looot more. $400-$500/hr. They stay pretty busy.
I’ve shifted to bidding fixed rate on projects around a defined scope. It’s a lot more work upfront to define a clear statement of work, but it has allowed me to stay above USD$200/hr without customers batting an eye - whereas my rate was consistently a sticking point in negotiations. My consulting mostly focuses around IT/digital strategy and the work product usually involves connecting together incumbent systems, a…
Cloud security reviews and audits, either by account/resource numbers which has a minimum of $500 for a single account with a reasonable number of resources or by the hour ($500) for which I have a 4 hour minimum. The small biz stuff is a breeze to audit and create reports on so I keep the lower rate available. I also do insider threat specific IR work which is typically done on retainer and starts at $10k but averag…
I imagine nearly 100% of your clientele is through networking?
I like the idea of working for a consulting firm as needed but it feels like most of those companies only want full-time commitments and I'm rather attached to my current position.
I did a couple of Ruby trainings in last 6 months for $8000/day (2 total, so it was a bit more than $30k). I wrote a book (free, 400 page) about Ruby. I do it with my partner, I'm happy to pay 20% for all unrelated stuff (organizing, filling in gaps, communicating with people, etc).
I did backend development (typescript, graphql, prisma) and devops (kubernetes, terraform, gcp, aws) for two years. I started at 40$/h then finished at 75$/h (100$/h for short contracts). I honestly got burned out by context switching (which I needed to do to fill my week). And it was somewhat easy to find contracts at 75$/h (I consider I am senior level) so I would consider either charging more or billing more hours…