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I'm Ruby on Rails & Javascript developer from South-Eastern Europe (Croatia, Zagreb). I'm working for a client in Chicago, USA and my rate is 40usd/hr.
225k this year, its great as long as they don't micro manage you
This would work better as a poll so people can answer anonymously.
No, it would not. This doesn't work, and neither would a poll. To be clear: we can have an interesting discussion on salaries, value of employees, etc. but if anyone takes any of these numbers, from this post, or a poll, and does so much as average them, they would immediately produce meaningless data. Some reasons: - Participation is voluntary, the group is self-selected. This in itself renders all results meaningle…
Some of it is just human psychology. Nobody sees what appears to be a norm, measures himself against it, and wants to admit that he falls short of it -- even if he's totally anonymous. This is especially true when a poll concerns topics of great emotional weight, like salary. Take an anonymous poll on everyone's favorite sports team, or favorite ice cream flavor, and you'd probably get accurate results. Take a poll on salary, and many of the results would be dubious.
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You're wrong though, at least in my case. My pay doesn't change at all and I move quite often.
Yes, he's wrong. I do quite well working remotely and every offer I've received for which I'd have to work in a $%^&ing open office (because open office good, cubicle bad plus mandatory daily Jar Jar meeting at no additional cost(1)) would have entailed a 25-50% pay cut. My advice is to refuse in every way you can to be the generic fungible engineer most management wishes you to be, and to instead specialize in emerg…
With 60% oDesk clients and 40% other remote clients, back in 2012, I did around 17k $ in the whole year. I explained it at the end of this post http://malditointer.net/after-working-1200-hours-in-odesk/
I keep working in remote for hand-picked clients. I raised my rates (I started really low, 8$/hour, coming from non-technical background at all). My current rate is 25$/h, and I have started to take some projects that imply some development (ruby on rails, html/css). AMAnything if you feel like! Willing to help or solve some doubts.
You said you started to take development projects, then what kind of projects you were working on earlier?
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Yes, he's wrong. I do quite well working remotely and every offer I've received for which I'd have to work in a $%^&ing open office (because open office good, cubicle bad plus mandatory daily Jar Jar meeting at no additional cost(1)) would have entailed a 25-50% pay cut. My advice is to refuse in every way you can to be the generic fungible engineer most management wishes you to be, and to instead specialize in emerg…
That link is stupid. We do daily standups. It usually takes about 3 minutes. If it's taking 2.5 hours/week, you're doing it wrong.
The important part is that the spot on the globe where I decide to plug in my laptop has precisely zero bearing on that bill rate. I'll grant that the offset of having to pay for my own equipment and health care versus having to pay a premium in housing cost and take a huge hit on quality of life so as to be able to commute an hour to sit in a felt cube all day every day does leave me a bit ahead. But then I'd argue that surplus should be captured by me rather than J. Random Software Company.
Never let the poor negotiating position of the others around you affect your ability to negotiate the best deal for yourself. If your counterparty suggests dropping your rate to match the locals in whatever tropical paradise you've had the good sense to set up shop in, it's your job to chuckle softly and say "no. It doesn't work like that."
225k this year, its great as long as they don't micro manage you
yea, I'm also curious, what's the trick?
Living in East Europe, working as a consultant (C++, no web dev) remotely for West European company. Making 10x more of what I'd make locally (Senior/Lead role). I've changed several jobs during the last decade, always tripling the next salary (of course I've never mentioned my previous salary) - and I've always given the rate I asked for. So, if you want to make more - just ask for it.