Thanks to New York arguably being the the financial center of the universe, the "Great Recession" has meant almost zippo jobs the last 18 months in New York. This past week, every last one of the contracts advertised were financial sector jobs.
Even the pay scale for the jobs was marginally better. Granted, a few jobs required a daily rate. And typically, daily rate means the company wants to eek the last drop of blood out of you. Still, since the daily rates being offered translated into a higher hourly rate, it wasn't all bad news. Better to work like a dog and get paid fairly versus the opposite, after all.
As for the standard contracts, many companies were only hiring on a C2C basis. The highest rate I saw was $42, with the average falling in the high 20s, low 30s range. Again, even when you factor in the $5/hr padding for C2C, that's still better overall than the rates I saw quoted in the last year.
Who knows if this blitz will last? In the meantime, I'm happy to hang onto any positive signs I can find. Here's hoping some of us NYC-area tech writers find ourselves employed in the near future, and that this little upsurge results in better rates across the country for all our tech comm brothers and sisters.
Happy job hunting!
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