Are you an underpaid developer?
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Are you an underpaid developer?
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#2My total is around 185k in SV. It was 115k about 1.5 years ago...
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#3My total is around 185k in SV. It was 115k about 1.5 years ago...
With how many years of experience? Your data point doesn't mean much without that information :)
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#4My total is around 185k in SV. It was 115k about 1.5 years ago...
This is why every developer (no matter how much experience they have) thinks they're woefully underpaid.
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#5Salaried positions do include benefits packages, and in the US, the health insurance can be expensive or impossible for certain people to get. That said, if you know of one of those $124 freelance jobs in LA...
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#6The minimum viable calculation when it comes to income really is something like: disposable income - (cost of living * standard of living)
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#7SV here as well, independent contractor. 190k a year, ~6 years of experience, was making ~120k 3 years ago, ~40k a year 4 years ago.
Contracts are remote, so I could leave but choose not to for various reasons.
Starting a product and services company soon for developers (the customers) based on the schleps I've encountered. Just need to wrap up the current contract...
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#8I'm a bit higher than average for freelance hourly. I'm thinking about getting more into "charging by value" (as opposed to hourly) because I get a lot of resistance to raising my rate even as I get faster - but I'm not really certain how to do this since I tend to have long-term relationships with my clients and my work generally doesn't tend to have clear start/finish boundaries. Curious to hear if anyone has figured out a way around that.
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#9There is no such thing as an underpaid developer. The key skill is in recognizing your value as measured by the market. And to find that out, you need to test the waters. If you aren't testing the waters, you aren't underpaid (because you've restricted your scope to just the current firm, and are getting the only market price available)
This is a real problem in finance, where a lot of people think they are worth more because they add a lot of value when in fact they only add value to the current firm. Put them elsewhere and they won't necessarily add any value.
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#10My total is around 185k in SV. It was 115k about 1.5 years ago...
How did you make a big jump from 115K to 185K? congrats!