At 65.00 per hour, you're looking at 2600 per week (40 hour week (likely more hours)). If you're company is putting in 10 hours per week maximum at that rate per 52 weeks, the company is spending only 33,800.00 per year which is a lot cheaper than the client hiring a full time IT staff. Even JR. IT helpdesk retards make more than that (at least over here in the east coast). It makes practical sense for a client of yours to pay as little as they can. You on the other hand (and I don't mean this as an insult) are an idiot for 1) not doing consulting on your own if you know that YOU YOURSELF can make this amount. For consulting, the lowest I go is $200 per hour 5 hour minimum. My skillsets include network design, security, analysis, penetration testing, security design, analysis, forensics, etc. I don't even bother with system adminstration stuff.