Automated Download Delivery

We've created a shopping cart-equipped Phlaunt.com site to handle the sale and delivery of our e-book PDF downloads. Now you'll get your download as soon as your payment clears through PayPal. Please note, we do not sell our downloads in Kindle or Nook format because those platforms do not support tables, graphs, or the sophisticated page layout we use in our books properly.

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Try Our Dynamic Statistical Analysis

Now you can generate statistics for the data that interests you. We've added a new, free feature that lets you specify the time period, and the characteristics of the Real Rate Survey rate or Real Salary Survey salary reports you want to see analysed.

To visit the Real Rate Survey Dynamic Statistics Feature click HERE

To visit the Real Salary Survey Dynamic Statistics Feature click HERE.

How Our Surveys Work

The Real Rate Survey first went online in 1994, when Janet Ruhl posted a request for people to consulting rates on Compuserve. This version of the survey was put on the web in 1997. It peaked in popularity in the years before Y2K, when at one time it was receiving almost a million visits a year. The databases you will find searchable here contain rates and salaries that go back as far as 2002.

Traffic to this site has dropped, partially because the web has revolutionized communication between computer professionals and there no longer is the climate of secrecy that used to prevail.

At the time Janet Ruhl started posting rates and salaries, most companies made it a near-criminal offense to share salary information and the only available online consulting forum was owned by a computer consulting organization that refused to allow rates to be discussed out of fear of being accused of restraint of trade.

Janet Ruhl, having no institutional master to worry about,created this rate site so people working in the computer field could learn what their peers were earning and negotiate their own conpensation from a position of strength.

By now, the web has made most kinds of secrecy obsolete, so sites like this no longer draw the traffic they used to because the information is widely available. Since some people still visit it, Janet keeps this site alive as a service to the consulting community.

She herself has moved on. She used her own computer skills to design software that has made possible two very successful family businesses. In her spare time she continues to write bestselling nonfiction and novels published by a major publisher.

Please Contribute to the Correct Survey!

If you are paid by the hour please contribute your rates to our Rate Survey not the Salary Survey. The Salary Survey is only for reporting jobs that pay an annual salary, not for W-2 work that pays by the hour. We keep having to throw out a couple of hourly rates each week because they were sent to the Salary survey. We can't move these contributions to the Rate survey because the Salary Survey collects slightly different data.