I charge $80/hr in Boston and have plenty of work. I think if you are just starting, you'd probably have a hard time getting traction, but I went into the downturn with a lot of contacts, and I think I'm getting a lot of the excess work when companies have laid off half their staff and can't get their work done.
It helps to have an extremely broad skill set -- the wider the better. I never tell someone I don't have the skills to do a particular job: if I lack what they need, I do a crash course. Incidentally, Tab, I don't know about Western Mass, but if you are charging $10/hr in Boston, you're getting ripped. $10/hr is the legal minimum wage in Cambridge -- guys at McDonalds earn better. Even the staffing firms (places like Aquent) don't pay less than $20 last I checked (though admittedly they don't have much to offer). Cheers! Fletch > From: Tab Julius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 19:34:41 -0400 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: <lingo-l> any body knows a good source of the info on prevaling > wages > > > If you're in MA, and want a job as a content integrator / junior multimedia > developer, with all due respect, I'd say you'd consider yourself lucky to > even get employed at the moment. That said, anywhere from $10/hr to $20/hr > would probably be the range. If you haven't noticed, the market is > particularly tight right now, and there's a lot of talent chasing a small > amount of opportunities. Of course, $10/hr won't get you too far in the > Boston area, as I'm sure you know. Such is the market nowadays. > > - Tab > > > At 01:18 PM 9/5/03, Irina Danilova wrote: >> Folks, >> >> any body knows a good source of the info on prevailing wages? Or knows >> what's the average wage for, say content integrator/ junior multimedia >> developer? >> >> --- >> Irina L. Danilova >> Programmer >> VPG Integrated Media >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> (617)262-8830 x254 >> www.vpg.com > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to > http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is > for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
