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I work as a "Student" Developer, I have programmed for 2 years My main skills are php and java. using linux platform for everything. EDIT: I'm charged about 40% of all my earnings in tax
This actually comes up quite often. Here's one recent instance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2991350 ... and here's my explanation from that thread, on why it's a very bad idea to rely on the responses you'll get when you ask the question here: This would probably work better as a poll or an offsite, anonymous survey. I don't think you'll get very accurate results from limiting yourself to the small fraction…
But it's true I wouldn't advise people disclosing their rate if their are not anonymous.
This actually comes up quite often. Here's one recent instance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2991350 ... and here's my explanation from that thread, on why it's a very bad idea to rely on the responses you'll get when you ask the question here: This would probably work better as a poll or an offsite, anonymous survey. I don't think you'll get very accurate results from limiting yourself to the small fraction…
I know but most people on this site use an anonymous handle, which solves most if not all those points: minding disclosing in public,co-workers, employers, or clients who read this site,plan to change their rate in the future, make enough /bragging, etc. But it's true I wouldn't advise people disclosing their rate if their are not anonymous.
C#/.NET Developer, 0.5 years of experience, C#, ASP.NET MVC, Front-end web development
This actually comes up quite often. Here's one recent instance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2991350 ... and here's my explanation from that thread, on why it's a very bad idea to rely on the responses you'll get when you ask the question here: This would probably work better as a poll or an offsite, anonymous survey. I don't think you'll get very accurate results from limiting yourself to the small fraction…
I know but most people on this site use an anonymous handle, which solves most if not all those points: minding disclosing in public,co-workers, employers, or clients who read this site,plan to change their rate in the future, make enough /bragging, etc. But it's true I wouldn't advise people disclosing their rate if their are not anonymous.
Take a quick look through the "Top Commenters" list here, and you'll notice that nearly all of them use either their own name or a strong pseudonym tied to their real identity. Several of those guys are billing out at the kind of nice-to-have rates that a young dev with any sense aught to make his mission to replicate.
The guys responding below with silly pseudonyms, quoting two digit hourly bill rates, don't tell anybody anything interesting. Worse, they might just convince some poor soul that "you know, maybe $65/hour isn't so bad after all", and invite him into a lifetime of being underpaid when the reality is that he could 5X-10X that if he wanted to.
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I know but most people on this site use an anonymous handle, which solves most if not all those points: minding disclosing in public,co-workers, employers, or clients who read this site,plan to change their rate in the future, make enough /bragging, etc. But it's true I wouldn't advise people disclosing their rate if their are not anonymous.
That alone will skew the results downward. Take a quick look through the "Top Commenters" list here, and you'll notice that nearly all of them use either their own name or a strong pseudonym tied to their real identity. Several of those guys are billing out at the kind of nice-to-have rates that a young dev with any sense aught to make his mission to replicate. The guys responding below with silly pseudonyms, quoting…
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.
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I know but most people on this site use an anonymous handle, which solves most if not all those points: minding disclosing in public,co-workers, employers, or clients who read this site,plan to change their rate in the future, make enough /bragging, etc. But it's true I wouldn't advise people disclosing their rate if their are not anonymous.
That alone will skew the results downward. Take a quick look through the "Top Commenters" list here, and you'll notice that nearly all of them use either their own name or a strong pseudonym tied to their real identity. Several of those guys are billing out at the kind of nice-to-have rates that a young dev with any sense aught to make his mission to replicate. The guys responding below with silly pseudonyms, quoting…
I'm interested in making 5X-10X of what I currently am. What should I do?