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Re: Ask HN: What is your daily rate?

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Post by TamDenholm »

nrzuk wrote: post #39
TamDenholm wrote: post #35

£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.

Yeah that is primarily London, i live in Edinburgh where theres next to no work but typically work in London. Although i've had the odd contract up here or remote for decent money. I'm flexible down to £350 a day if its an interesting project to me.

Re: Ask HN: What is your daily rate?

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Post by robomartin »

justacoward90 wrote: post #61
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?

Not selling that service as an isolated item. It just happens in the context of another project. For example, we did a very advanced high power (1,500W) LED array. The project comprised mechanical, electronic design, microprocessor firmware, FPGA development and workstation software tool development.

Thermal design required running piles of FEA thermal simulations over a period of about three months, probably 12 hours per day. I feel it is better to charge per CPU-hour in these cases because it gives you the flexibility, when the tools support it, to give the client the option to rent additional CPU time to accelerate development.

On the FPGA front, depending on design complexity you can have simulations that run for hours before you can analyze results. Again, I don't feel it is proper to charge per man-hour when you can walk away and go do something else. You do have to charge for the processing time and use of hardware. We have 16 rack-mounted 8-core machines with tons of memory for simulation work.

Re: Ask HN: What is your daily rate?

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Post by matt6545 »

I bill per project, a percentage of annual revenue. I work in the US. I work as a consultant for dysfunctioning \ struggling IT departments, I have 20 years of experience and my main skills are Information Risk Management, Information Security.

Re: Ask HN: What is your daily rate?

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Post by ayers »

davewasthere wrote: post #28

My current daily rate is USD$640/day, I work in UK/Aus/NZ predominantly. (remote and travelling mostly) I work as a Full Stack .Net Developer/Architect for web applications, I have 16+ years of experience, with main skills in C#, MVC, jQuery, EntityFramework, SQL, Agile. Am not an exceptional developer, but I have a good working relationship with my clients to help deliver on their projects. I don't actively network…

Which country are you based and how often do you travel?

Re: Ask HN: What is your daily rate?

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Post by jberryman »

instakill wrote: post #32

$80 - $150 per hour (depending on the project) capped at 10 hours per week. Live in a GMT +2 area. 4 years rails XP. Help maintain a very big legacy codebase and have built a rails backend that served an education site that got thousands of concurrent visitors at peak. Know enough devops to provision a secure server, and do deployments via capistrano or ansible.

I'm also interested in what you mean by "10 hours per week" and how you present that to clients, and what sort of pushback (or not) you've experienced from clients about that.

Re: Ask HN: What is your daily rate?

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Post by shortsightedsid »

SyneRyder wrote: post #71
anthonyby wrote: post #27

My current daily rate is $9/hour, I work in Indonesia I work as iOS Developer, I have 8 years of experience in IT and only 1 year in iOS Dev. But I hope my hour rate will increase soon :)

The minimum wage in Australia is $16.87, according to the article below. I'd have ethical & possibly even legal issues if I contracted someone at less than the national minimum wage. You should definitely charge more. http://www.smh.com.au/national/minimum-wage-up-3-per-cent-ri...

Why? The minimum wage in Australia and it's legal boundaries do not apply to other countries. Plus, I don't see why there is an ethical issue in outsourcing work to another country where rates are lower.

The assumption you are probably making is that $9 an hour is too low. That's right if you are in Australia, but is that low for Indonesia?

Re: Ask HN: What is your daily rate?

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Post by patio11 »

thedufer wrote: post #25
xpto123 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just to understand, why do you believe using an anonymous handle skews the results downward? Most persons use anonymous handles online, except on places like facebook its a generalized practice. I personally don't see the correlation between those two things. The name of the site is Hacker News, so I would expect a lot of people here to be security aware and in general use pseudonyms anyway.

I believe the argument is that most top commenters (which I suspect correlates quite well with high rates) are not pseudonymous, and thus unlikely to respond. See: patio11, tptacek, etc.

FWIW: I bet you that there exist people with 0 < n < 100 HN karma who have weekly rates which beat Thomas' and my peak career rates, combined.

Re: Ask HN: What is your daily rate?

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Post by marketingadvice »

shortsightedsid wrote: post #86
SyneRyder wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The minimum wage in Australia is $16.87, according to the article below. I'd have ethical & possibly even legal issues if I contracted someone at less than the national minimum wage. You should definitely charge more. http://www.smh.com.au/national/minimum-wage-up-3-per-cent-ri...

Why? The minimum wage in Australia and it's legal boundaries do not apply to other countries. Plus, I don't see why there is an ethical issue in outsourcing work to another country where rates are lower. The assumption you are probably making is that $9 an hour is too low. That's right if you are in Australia, but is that low for Indonesia?

Not sure about Indonesia but in Thailand that's about average for junior - mid level.

I worked in a company where they paid their head of mobile $13/hour and he was managing 3 Android devs and 3 iOS devs, each being paid between $6 and $9/hour.

One of the people I worked with directly as a marketing content writer was making $3/hour.

Re: Ask HN: What is your daily rate?

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Post by marketingadvice »

My current rate is $150/hour for freelance work and $40/hour on long term contract. I work in Canada and USA mainly.

I work as a marketing consultant/growth hacker, I have +6 years of experience.

Hopefully in another couple years I will move into all remote contract roles so I can try out the digital nomad lifestyle in Asia.

Re: Ask HN: What is your daily rate?

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

xpto123 wrote: post #80
majc2 wrote: post #26

I don't think your hypothesis is correct. There are sites out there that already aggregate the permanent and contract markets. (i.e. itjobswatch.co.uk) - I'm sure others exist for other territories. I know its fashionable to bash recruiters - and man do a bunch of them deserve it. But for contractors/freelancers - if you don't like selling then service companies/recruiters are your friend. Quit thinking of them as us…

For me charging 25% to the contractor for the live of the contract is completely unjustifiable just for posting a job in some site and some emails and phone calls.

You may not like it, but there's no justification needed other than both parties to the agreement being happy with it.
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