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I believe they're worth even more! Double it again!
Like Dr Evil said: "One! Million! Dollars!"
One million per day? Or per hour?
Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?
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Re: Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?
#192I 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.
FYI, first load of your personal website (redirected from Twitter) was surprisingly slow. Subsequent reloads were fine however. Could have been something on my end though or likely just Twitter redirection(s?) process taking its sweet time..
Probably that, it's just a ghost blog deployed to a k8s cluster on aws.
Re: Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?
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For those drooling at this: you probably don't want this work. The clients who pay this amount are typically soul crushingly bad to work with, and you're under the gun to deliver 10k worth of value both to secure future work with the client and ensure your reputation stays clean. One bad experience can sink you with other clients, folks talk. IMO, build something for you and sell it vs building something for other pe…
This is not accurate at all. I've found people who pay these rates are better to work with and demand less. You know that trope all startup people say "raise your prices and get rid of the low value high cost customers" Same thing.
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Re: Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?
#194Everyone here is so incredibly focused on money as the primary motivator, which I guess given the thread question makes some sense. But I'd like to just put in a little word for money not being everything, and client type / work type actually being a really important part of the equation. HN is a forum where increasingly I see posts every single day about the high level of misery in tech / how can I get out of this r…
I mean this in the nicest way possible, but it's easy to say money isn't everything when you're already earning £120k/$140k pa.
Yeah I exhaled slightly when reading they're in the >97th percentile for UK salaries.
Modest earnings
Re: Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?
#195Everyone here is so incredibly focused on money as the primary motivator, which I guess given the thread question makes some sense. But I'd like to just put in a little word for money not being everything, and client type / work type actually being a really important part of the equation. HN is a forum where increasingly I see posts every single day about the high level of misery in tech / how can I get out of this r…
I get what you're saying, but I work to live, not live to work. My end game is to spend my time doing what I love with those I love and unfortunately, writing code for someone elses business is not what I love. It's traveling the world, hiking mountains, swimming with whales and dolphins, sitting on a swing set with my kid, taking my dog for walks.
Money is my only motivation because I want to quit everything that makes money and only do stuff that doesn't make money but makes me happy.
Re: Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?
#196Everyone here is so incredibly focused on money as the primary motivator, which I guess given the thread question makes some sense. But I'd like to just put in a little word for money not being everything, and client type / work type actually being a really important part of the equation. HN is a forum where increasingly I see posts every single day about the high level of misery in tech / how can I get out of this r…
I mean this in the nicest way possible, but it's easy to say money isn't everything when you're already earning £120k/$140k pa.
That’s assuming they can work 240 days a year, contracting normally has significant unpaid downtime and of course zero benefits.
Re: Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?
#197Everyone here is so incredibly focused on money as the primary motivator, which I guess given the thread question makes some sense. But I'd like to just put in a little word for money not being everything, and client type / work type actually being a really important part of the equation. HN is a forum where increasingly I see posts every single day about the high level of misery in tech / how can I get out of this r…
Pricing according to the ability to pay and the value it generates is something that seems to make sense.
There is no perfect universal formula. Everyone has different situations, backgrounds, variables to weight and scenarios to ensure. It’s good to advocate for balance because keeping score with money quickly can get hollow when Al your time and best energy is tanked.
Ones pursuit of profit and purpose doesn’t have to be with min the same hour of activity at work. One can be optimized to feed the other.
Surprisingly the world will pay atomically will for solving what appears to be a boring but very real problem.
Solving these tries of problems can lead to interesting ones.
If one some it might be more possible to work for larger rates based on their experience and give back to non profits at little to nothing, or over deliver value.
It doesn’t seem important but within 5-10 years it becomes apparent that ppl on the self or startup path have to create their own retirement fund and healthcare plan not just for them.
The more you can save the more you can have a say in what you do and don’t take on, and for how long.
Re: Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?
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What’s your strategy for finding clients, if you don’t mind me asking? And how do you handle ongoing maintenance/sysadmin?
> What’s your strategy for finding clients, if you don’t mind me asking? Referrals from existing clients, HN monthly threads. > And how do you handle ongoing maintenance/sysadmin? $10k/week, pre-paid monthly. I don't do hourly because I don't work hourly. You're paying for my skills and expertise not the geo coordinates of the chair I am sitting in for however long I am working. I charge accordingly. The price is for…
Amazing. Any oncall type of work? What if things go down at 3am?
Re: Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?
#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean this in the nicest way possible, but it's easy to say money isn't everything when you're already earning £120k/$140k pa.
Yeah I exhaled slightly when reading they're in the >97th percentile for UK salaries. Modest earnings
This is apples to oranges and therefore false. Contracting has much much more deductions from the base rate than salaries. At the very least, with 20 days (1 month) off, you start off with a 11/12 coefficient. Then there's buying your own benefits, dealing with your own accounting, i.e. maybe paying an accountant or otherwise investing the time to do it yourself, which in turn reduces the number of hours you have to actually, you know, contract. They aren't in the 97th percentile.
Re: Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?
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>I charge £500 a day. It's not much compared to some of the rates on here 500GBP/day is still very good by European dev wage standards. You can't compare to American wages/rates.
It is pretty average for a contractor in Europe. Contractors/Freelancers have always been paid above normal wages, because the contracts offer more flexibility to the employers.
Depends on which market in Europe. Rates can vary wildly.