OK, so that's a great explanation made on some assumptions; let me give you some actual experience though which is what gives me my bias:
I worked for a company that was already established as a design consultancy... so all the above that you lay out was already calc'd in their overhead...
They went after a contract for a large project and they didn't have the expertise in house to land the project.
They poached me to be able to gain the contract. They made several million on this contract, which they would have been incapable of getting without me joining and actually doing the work.
They billed me out for exceedingly profitable work; I did 100% of the work, their overhead for all the shit you mention did not increase, and they piled more work onto my efforts which they billed for.
they promised me a multi-tens-of-thousands bonus based on all this work and met with me on five separate occasions to go over documented revenue/bonus projections and confirm this amount (this was with the CEO) -- then when it came time to pay; they paid me 8% of the promised, documented bonus. and made excuses that "they weren't being paid by the client" -- and later had a seperate manager (known as "the snake") come in and tell me "tough luck - the CEO's calcs were wrong"
So, While your story sounds all nice and whatever... I can guarantee that it is not true in all cases.
David Marks; if you read this - Fuck you.
I worked for a company that was already established as a design consultancy... so all the above that you lay out was already calc'd in their overhead...
They went after a contract for a large project and they didn't have the expertise in house to land the project.
They poached me to be able to gain the contract. They made several million on this contract, which they would have been incapable of getting without me joining and actually doing the work.
They billed me out for exceedingly profitable work; I did 100% of the work, their overhead for all the shit you mention did not increase, and they piled more work onto my efforts which they billed for.
they promised me a multi-tens-of-thousands bonus based on all this work and met with me on five separate occasions to go over documented revenue/bonus projections and confirm this amount (this was with the CEO) -- then when it came time to pay; they paid me 8% of the promised, documented bonus. and made excuses that "they weren't being paid by the client" -- and later had a seperate manager (known as "the snake") come in and tell me "tough luck - the CEO's calcs were wrong"
So, While your story sounds all nice and whatever... I can guarantee that it is not true in all cases.
David Marks; if you read this - Fuck you.