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Re: Ask HN: What is your daily rate?

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Post by justacoward90 »

robomartin wrote: post #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.

So you just run ansys/comsol? (Kidding. It's more involved, I'm sure.) How did you get into that selling that service?

Re: Ask HN: What is your daily rate?

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Post by justacoward90 »

WhitneyLand wrote: post #49
rsobers wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

But what part of the curve are you looking at? You really think that top 0.01% of lawyers are making less than $900k/year? How good do you have to be at year 4 to hit that kind of target?

Re: Ask HN: What is your daily rate?

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Post by SyneRyder »

FLUX-YOU wrote: post #40
instakill wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Charge more.

How do I know I'm worth what I'm charging?

Try calculating the value that you are providing to your clients. Even an estimate is better than nothing. Don't think in terms of your time, but in terms of the benefit your customers get from your work. If a script you put together in just an hour saves a company $50,000, they're still getting a bargain if you charge $1000 or $2000 an hour. Or more.

Try reading Breaking The Time Barrier from Freshbooks (free PDF): https://breakingthetimebarrier.freshbooks.com/

I've also heard good things about Brennan Dunn's "Double Your Freelancing Rate", though I've not yet read it myself and am generally reluctant to recommend 'courses': http://doubleyourfreelancing.com/rate/

Re: Ask HN: What is your daily rate?

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Post by justacoward90 »

supster wrote: post #48
justacoward90 wrote: post #33

$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?

Based out of nowhere useful, USA. Often I don't say, because often they don't care, and it would be harmful anyway. Projects come in regularly, but I reject almost all of them. Good project picking is tricky. Know when to drop relationships (hint: it's not "never").

Re: Ask HN: What is your daily rate?

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Post by xpto123 »

mddw wrote: post #67

600€ to 800€ / day (depending on conditions) + VAT, I work in France (not Paris.) Remote only. Mainly web sites, some webapps, some native apps.

Hello, thanks for sharing that, and are there any sites/ways that you generally recommend for searching remote work? Thx
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