Robert Ardell
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder & Strategic Advisor at KORE1 A mid-level NetSuite functional consultant now takes about 4.5 months to hire, average NetSuite consultant pay has climbed past $125,000, and 72% of employers worldwide can’t fill open technical roles. That’s the ERP talent shortage in dollars and weeks, not just a headline. I should say … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 An IT project manager job description has to name the systems being changed, who owns cutover and rollback, how change control runs, and a pay band near the 2026 market of $99,000 to $130,000. A generic project manager posting states none of that. The copy-ready template is … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Hire an ERP project manager by testing whether they can price a change order, not by counting go-lives on a resume. Base pay runs $105,000 to $190,000 in 2026 depending on scope and industry, contract rates sit between $95 and $165 an hour, and a properly scoped … Read more
NetSuite and Acumatica pull from two unrelated talent markets. NetSuite is customized in SuiteScript, a JavaScript dialect, while Acumatica is customized in C# and .NET, so the platform you picked already decided which developers you can hire. Every comparison you have read so far ranked modules and pricing tiers. Not one mentioned the languages. It … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 The Android questions worth asking in 2026 cover Jetpack Compose state, coroutine cancellation, and a target-SDK migration the candidate actually shipped. Everything else on the standard list is vocabulary, and vocabulary is the part candidates study the night before. Ask about the migration first. It is the … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Controllers earn $115,000 to $185,000 base in 2026, with corporate controllers at audited, multi-entity companies reaching $175,000 to $235,000 and public-company controllers clearing $265,000. Those bands move on one thing more than any other, and it is not years of experience. It is what the monthly close … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Program managers earn $118,000 to $155,000 base at mid-level in 2026 and $150,000 to $195,000 at senior, while technical program managers at scaled tech companies clear $240,000 in total compensation. Those bands come from reconciling eight public trackers against reqs our desks actually closed. Take the trackers … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 W2, 1099, and C2C are three ways to paper the same contractor, where W2 makes the person an employee of you or your staffing firm, 1099 pays an individual directly, and C2C contracts with the business entity that person owns. Same human being, same laptop, same standup … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Boomerang employees are workers who leave a company and later return, and by March 2025 they made up 35 percent of all new hires in ADP’s payroll data, the highest share since 2018. Most articles on the subject treat that as a feel-good story about loyalty. It … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 A head of analytics is the person who decides what your company’s numbers mean, then defends those definitions to finance, product, and the board. Pay in 2026 runs from roughly $168,000 to $294,000 depending on which tracker you ask. Whether the hire works has almost nothing to … Read more
