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My salary as a full-stack developer

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Re: My salary as a full-stack developer

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Post by yurishimo »

misterremote wrote: post #2

Is my salary fine or should I ask more? I feel like I should ask more. Would be helpful to hear about your salary and hourly price?

Given your current tax burden, $3k/mo take home is a joke. I'm in a similar position as you, Laravel/PHP dev working on a highly specialized platform and my take home is a bit over $6k/mo after taxes (in Texas) with full benefits.

I have to track my hours because I work for an agency that bills it's time to clients, but for the most part, I'm working on one/two Jira tickets in a day so it's fairly manageable. 4 hours spent on one ticket, 2 hours on another, and an hour or two of meetings per day (stand ups, grooming, etc). Some days I work on one ticket and call it quits.

Don't sell yourself short. You're worth a hell of a lot more than you're making now. I think you have every right to demand double your take home pay, at least.

Re: My salary as a full-stack developer

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Post by xtracto »

misterremote wrote: post #2

Is my salary fine or should I ask more? I feel like I should ask more. Would be helpful to hear about your salary and hourly price?

Toptal salaries for Sr. software engineer range between 41/hr and 75/hr gross, so I think yours should fall within that range.

https://www.glassdoor.sg/Salary/Toptal-US-Salaries-EI_IE8820...

Edit: See also X-team salaries:

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/X-Team-Salaries-E1274500.ht...

between 40/hr and 60/hr.

Re: My salary as a full-stack developer

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Post by lowercased »

david927 wrote: post #9
Solvitieg wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm currently making 6,000 USD per month. After paying my taxes, this leaves me around 3,000 USD to spend each month. Just curious, why is your blended tax rate 50%

As a contractor, that's about right when you include healthcare coverage -- in the US, of course.

that's likely not even remotely correct. for someone earning in that range, i'd expect more like 25-30% (including health insurance) - should be less if/when you start to work at tax reduction.

I've been solo contracting for > 10 years and have never had to pay anywhere close to 50% in taxes/insurance.

Re: My salary as a full-stack developer

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Post by paxys »

To put things in perspective, based on recent experience my company has had getting specialists with 15-20 years of technical experience to work on a fixed-term contract (anything from 6 weeks to 6+ months), $250/hr would be considered a steal.

Re: My salary as a full-stack developer

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Post by walshemj »

sudhirj wrote: post #4

Work for a company in the US via an agency, company pays agency $70/hr for my time, I get $50/hr.

Its always struck me how badly "contractors" are treated in the US.

I would be paying about £25 weekly or £100 a month for an umbarella company if I went contract in the UK at a £800 day rate.

And for experienced professionals like the OP a day rate is the better way to go

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