Love how the market is completely falling apart. A few years ago it was common sense a contractor got paid more in dollars to offset the lack of benefits. Now contract roles wanna pay the same salary you’d get full time and still offer no benefits. And full time jobs wanna pay salaries that didn’t fly 3-4 years ago for the same amount of work. The economy is embarrassing right now

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Hitting the nail on the head sadly. The contractor premium is basically gone. Companies figured out they can call it "contract to hire" and pay W2 rates with no benefits, and people are desperate enough to take it. I've seen contract roles paying LESS than the full-time equivalent because "it's flexible." Cool cool cool 🙄

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