If I had to find fault with my colleagues in the statistics profession and myself, it would be because we sell ourselves short. I can't blame the researchers we work with. If they offer us support at 5% effort on a research grant where everyone else is getting 20% effort or more and we accept, they are the smart ones and we are the dumb ones. It is not just in the research arena that we sell ourselves short. In our outside consulting work, we don't charge nearly enough. Much too low is the $130 average hourly rate listed in a 2006 newsletter of the Statistical Consulting Section (http://community, amstat. org/cnsl/documents/ newsletters/archive/2000-2009).
展开▼
