I think people who are using this type of work as a living should get paid a salary with benefits and severance. A project to project lifestyle doesn’t seem conducive to focusing on impact.
Agreed. In my brief experience with academic consulting one thing I’ve realised is that it is really quite reasonable for contracted consultants to charge a 50-100% premium (on top of their utilisation ratio—usually 50%, so another x2 markup) to account for their lack of benefits.
So if somebody is expecting to earn a ‘fair’ salary from impact purchases compared to employment (or from any other type of short-term contract work really) they should expect a funder to pay premium for this compared to employing them (or funding another organisation to do so) - this doesn’t seem like a good use of funds in the long-term if it is possible to employee that person.
Agreed. In my brief experience with academic consulting one thing I’ve realised is that it is really quite reasonable for contracted consultants to charge a 50-100% premium (on top of their utilisation ratio—usually 50%, so another x2 markup) to account for their lack of benefits.
So if somebody is expecting to earn a ‘fair’ salary from impact purchases compared to employment (or from any other type of short-term contract work really) they should expect a funder to pay premium for this compared to employing them (or funding another organisation to do so) - this doesn’t seem like a good use of funds in the long-term if it is possible to employee that person.