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In 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?
In my experience no advertises on job boards that they are looking for contractors.
Southeast 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.
But I’d like to know where you find work because I haven’t found many clients in the SE that wish to spend money.
I 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.
This is a great rate. I’d love to know how you find clients willing to pay this amount. Most people I’ve come across that need a new site/app built have extremely low budgets. Like $10,000…total for an app. Certainly not $10,000 for a week.
I have a similar weekly rate but $200 hourly; How I bill depends on the client (though yes, gravitating more and more towards weekly over time).
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I tell clients that identifying the problem is at least 50% of the work, and that includes meetings. Well, I call them "work sessions", and I don't think it's an euphemism. And then they can pay 100 hours for a narrow scope of perfect, or they can pay 20 hours and iterate until it's good enough (bugfixes).
Is it controversial that meetings should count as billable time? I mean, it’s not like you’re there because you just really like meetings!
So, £75, or $86 an hour. This is 5 days a week, 40 hours a week. I bill around £14k a month and after taxes i walk away with about £7k a month.
Southeast 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.
You should probably charge more. Automobile repairs techs in Alabama charge more than that. But I’d like to know where you find work because I haven’t found many clients in the SE that wish to spend money.
Is that a different term for "mechanics"?
$2k per day. hourly always invites discussions, for example how are phone calls with mixed topics billed?
I'm considering switching from hourly to a daily model. Tracking hours is becoming too granular for the work I'm doing. This includes research and development; each of which I find myself "guessing" the hours a lot of the time.
If you bill 2h of DuckDuck-ing for suitable libraries to use as dependencies, that sounds like you're slacking off. But it'll probably save money for the project as a whole.
I 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.