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If a company lays someone off in favor of AI, employees should ask for at LEAST a 20% bump to come back... make it fucking painful for them.
20 is nothing for that. I'd ask for 50, especially if it was going from former FTE to contract.
Generally consultants on short-medium length contracts cost 3-5x hourly rate of FTEs, for long-term contracts it's usually around 2x, at least in the industries I've worked in. You'd be low balling yourself by only asking for a 50% increase for contract work.