Rate increase .....

[malvolio]

Urrrrm before you jump the gun
1) Its not MY project. I am assigned to it but delays are due to signoffs for kit etc. If it was mine it would have been done ages ago without all the politics.

2) They have decided to "expand" the project ( i.e do more than what they intially had planned for ).

3) One contractor has already left hence replacing him + getting extra man as well.

So definitely not my fault and if it was i'd happily face the music. All I am saying is that I will have to train the noobs initially on the in and outs yet they would be getting more than I am.

You may very well be right, obviously I have no visibility and was being slightly mischevious. Nevertheless, somewhere in your client is a manager thinking exactly the same thing as me....

If there is a scope change and if they are relying on you to bring the new resources on stream, then ask for a raise, through the agency. If they're any good, they'll recover it anyway. But ask yourself, why should you, the expert, be charging the same as them, the know-nothing newbies...?