On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Steve Onnis <st...@cfcentral.com.au> wrote: > Yeah $80 is low and when you are dealing with recruitment agencies you would > be extremely hard pressed to get anything over $80-85 an hour around here.
Ah, yes, they'd take quite a margin, I'm sure. > Subcontracting yourself yeah you might be able to push the envelope a > little and maybe stretch it out to $110-120 an hour but even that is > extremely rare from my experience, mainly because of the industry and > companies just don't want to pay that sort of money for a contractor for > general web development services. Thanx for confirming that. Sounds like rates vary quite a lot by region then and Oz rates are lower than US rates which are lower than European rates (but then the cost of living in the US is lower than in Europe - maybe the cost of living is lower in Oz than the US?). I know from working with Railo Consulting that we have to offer different rates in different regions because of these sorts of considerations. One comment I got from a local agency back when I was freelance was that my rate was "much, much higher" than the PHP developers they dealt with - but they checked the market and came back and said "OK, it seems CF developers get paid a lot more than PHP developers". How do Oz rates for CFers compare with web dev rates for other technologies? -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaus...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en.
