There was a question a couple days ago about hourly rate, and a lot of the discussion revolved around raising compensation by specializing. Of course, generalists can still specialize, but it's a bit different. So, I'm curious what the answers will be like if we hear from only generalist developers.
Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?
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Re: Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?
#2In Amsterdam NL a backend engineer could expect 80-100 euros/hr. > 100 is also possible, but you may get into specialization territory.
Re: Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?
#3I recommend Weekly Rate Consulting[0]
About four years ago a friend of mine, who specializes in personal brand consultation, suggested whatever my hourly was that I double it. I didn't believe her. I doubled it and landed the first proposal.
You're probably worth more than you think.
Specialization can increase your rate, but business sense, communication, and ability to articulate and contribute value at the executive level is a 10x difference.
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Re: Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?
#4I’m also curious what’s a good way finding projects for generalists. My contracting experience was that I ended up doing specialized work even though I would able to complete the project from start to finish.
Re: Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?
#5I specialize in the ability to competently and fully build from the ground up your whole business from design, development, system administration, deployments, testing, seo and other stuff as a single person.
My rate is $10,000/week pre-paid monthly.
Re: Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?
#6$2k per day.
hourly always invites discussions, for example how are phone calls with mixed topics billed?
Re: Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?
#7I specialize in the ability to competently and fully build from the ground up your whole business from design, development, system administration, deployments, testing, seo and other stuff as a single person. My rate is $10,000/week pre-paid monthly.
How do you usually find clients?
Re: Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?
#8$120US for work I think will be interesting or rewarding, scaling to $300US for work that sounds like it's going to suck.
Re: Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?
#9Southeast USA. $100/hr for everything (meetings, development work, bug fixes, ...).
Took me a while to be honest with myself and finally charge for all of my time. Maybe it's confidence?
Never had an issue from a client with this arrangement.
Re: Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?
#10In Amsterdam NL a backend engineer could expect 80-100 euros/hr. > 100 is also possible, but you may get into specialization territory.
Where would one go and look for those kind of vacancies?