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Re: Consultant Fee



>I think that you should expect to pay a consultant between $250 and
>$500 per day plus expenses (transportation, meals, and housing if an
>overnight stay is required) depending in part upon the complexity of
what you
>expect...

I'm curious about this.  Many of you will pay an attorney this much for
an hour or two of work.  While there are a million attorneys out there.
Qualified consultants  in the fields of archives and special collections

are indeed rare.  Why are their services so undervalued?  Could it be
that some type of anachronistic economics are at work?  Indeed, this is
what skilled and sophisticated consultants charged ten or twenty years
ago.  In my specialties of appraisal, preservation, and security
consultants routinely charge $ 500.00-$ 1000.00 per day.

Any comments?

Ron

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