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We may do a follow-up survey to attempt to confirm our assumption that the vast majority of people that make money from apps are doing so by invoicing clients, rather than selling …

Especially comparing the average rates to proficiency and locale, I was surprised. I would expect Journeymen and Master to be charging more than $100/hr on average. Same with peopl…

I hadn't considered the transitioners. That's a good point. The other way to look at it is that they don't know how bad they are yet :) When you first start to learn something, you…

Fantastic point on challenging your own perceptions of the value of an hour, the market, etc. We really hope this survey (and subsequent ones that we plan to do) gives people an ad…

- The survey was anonymous (unless you signed up to get the results). And, I don't think anyone is trying to impress us ;) - The data clearly shows that this is per hour (see the d…

All of the above. We posted here on HN, on Twitter, our blog, and we emailed some people that we knew would want to participate.

Point taken, but if you look at the results page (linked in the post), it's a lot more clear: http://bigswing.com/ios-rates-2013

I will freely admit that I suck as stats and data viz. We'll track the feedback and add to the results page.

If you have any recommendation on finding/using a part-time sales person, I'm all ears! Dedicated sales would be awesome, but it'll be a while before we can hire this as a F/T posi…

This is the mindset we're trying to adopt now. Say yes, because too much work is a much better problem than not enough work.

This was the biggest "oh crap, what did we do to ourselves?" moment. Effectively saying "no" took us off those people's radars permanently.

Awesome suggestions all around. We're definitely going to be trying out all of the above to see what fits.