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Re: Ask HN: What is your daily rate?

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$1600/day, 8 hours/day, 5 days/week, remote (NO TRAVEL), USA. I write software for startups that have raised in the $5-20M range with at least $1M/year revenue. My software is mostly written in C, C++, Java, Python, Ruby, JavaScript. I began programming more than 15 years ago, although I only "officially" entered the industry during 2010. Don't set my salary as some sort of goal. Lawyers with 1/5th of my experience o…

I think you're sorely mistaken about lawyer salary.

Re: Ask HN: What is your daily rate?

#42
My current daily rate is 220€ / day (after taxes), I work in Luxemburg (average of 19.5 days / month).

I work as a Java Developer/Architect with 7+ years of experiences, with very good skills in both backend (Java, Spring, Oracle, PostgreSQL, redis) and frontend (JS, jQuery, AngularJS, HTML5, etc..), REST/SOAP, plus some mobile stuff (Android, ionic) and all the tooling that goes with Java (maven, sbt, ...).

Re: Ask HN: What is your daily rate?

#43
$200 to $300 per hour for software development.

$300 to $500 per hour for hardware development.

FEA and Simulation time charged by CPU-hour so long as they can run unattended (which is generally the case).

Usual contracts are fixed price with tight specs and hourly rates kick in for changes.

Re: Ask HN: What is your daily rate?

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£400 + VAT, UK. PHP Developer and not even a top notch one, i'm solid, but no rockstar, i am however full stack and I have other generic business skills. I also have an excellent portfolio with some very large names on them as well as almost 10 years experience doing this. You dont need to be an amazing developer to be successful, i'd actually say theres actually more value in getting complimentary skills rather than…

Nice, do you mind sharing which region you work in? I'm in the midlands and lucky to get £350 and have been pretty lucky to work with some huge brand names to make my portfolio shine, but clearly this isn't enough! Even with years of ZF experience I still seem to struggle to find good interesting contracts in the region.

I'm in Birmingham. There isn't much dev. work in the West Midlands in my experience. Most of our work comes from London and further afield. Rates depend on the nature of the work, but 2-4x what you quote is a reasonable range. (I work primarily with Scala. I don't do paid work 5 days a week as I have longer term projects to work on.)

Re: Ask HN: What is your daily rate?

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My daily rate is currently ~$800-900 (salaried/stock options) in Silicon Valley - I have a little under 2 years of experience and am a top notch AngularJS expert & very productive frontend engineer (with a bit of full stack experience with Node.js & Java). I have been called a 10x engineer.

I'm curious, how did you become so productive within 2 years? Did you start with JS/Angular from the get go?

Re: Ask HN: What is your daily rate?

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I'll start: My current daily rate is 62.5 EUR/hour, and currently work in Belgium (non-remote worker, 8 years exp.). I work as Java developer/architect and my main skills are Java, JavaScript, Spring, Hibernate, GWT, Camel, SOAP/REST web services, Maven

Is that before or after taxes? As a contractor?

Re: Ask HN: What is your daily rate?

#48

$1600/day, 8 hours/day, 5 days/week, remote (NO TRAVEL), USA. I write software for startups that have raised in the $5-20M range with at least $1M/year revenue. My software is mostly written in C, C++, Java, Python, Ruby, JavaScript. I began programming more than 15 years ago, although I only "officially" entered the industry during 2010. Don't set my salary as some sort of goal. Lawyers with 1/5th of my experience o…

Where are you based out of? And how do you maintain a steady flow of projects? Is it mainly through your network or client referrals?

Re: Ask HN: What is your daily rate?

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post #41

$1600/day, 8 hours/day, 5 days/week, remote (NO TRAVEL), USA. I write software for startups that have raised in the $5-20M range with at least $1M/year revenue. My software is mostly written in C, C++, Java, Python, Ruby, JavaScript. I began programming more than 15 years ago, although I only "officially" entered the industry during 2010. Don't set my salary as some sort of goal. Lawyers with 1/5th of my experience o…

I think you're sorely mistaken about lawyer salary.

Yes, mistaken. 3yrs experience at $1000/hr? Not to mention the rates you see are usually firm rates not net to an individual so you have to take out other costs.
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