These mobile phones have very cheap billing rates and are also given on easy loans from Grameen Bank.

"But we can't pay more than our billing rate, and when others offer higher salaries, we have to let them go."

Because competitive pressures and high billing rates require "instant experts" in each field, there has been a movement toward early specialization.

Under the state's $7 billion plan, the power authority would use the savings from tax-free bonds to help cut billing rates by 20 percent.

Both men have hourly billing rates in the range of $400 an hour.

ClickTime offers reporting functions that track billable time and billing rates.

The billing rate for this work ranges from $36 an hour to $23 an hour.

The authority sold tax-free bonds, which enabled it to cut billing rates by 20 percent.

According to court papers, Weil, Gotshal worked 12,742 hours at an average billing rate of $192 an hour.

His hourly billing rate is between $300 and $400 an hour.