New information has arrived to add to this summary. First, I must confess that I screwed up on when I listed the exchange rates between the dollar and the pound and euro. The current (and hopefully correct) rates are listed below.
In Israel you can get programming in MapBasic, MapX, MapXtreme NT and MapXtreme Java for $350 per day. Thanks to the Internet, they can work on jobs for anyone who's connected. In Maine (USA) the cost for experienced MapX/MapXtreme plus Oracle Spatial and SpatialWAre is about $1000/day, $120/hr. However, jobs are generally negotiated on a flat rate plus expenses for projects of any size. In France, a freelance developer stated that he charges (for 3D development) anywhere from a smile when starting a new technology to EURO 1000. He adds, "...the rates are very different from project to project, personal interest and famine level." He also points out that it's hard to make comparisons of rates between countries. The factors involved are not equal. He states: "As an example, in France, as a [freelance] developer, 80% of the amount I bill vanishes: 20% VAT, 20% direct taxes, 20% on social [contributions], and a 20% more in a bunch of taxes like: local administration (city council), tax on your professional activity, tax on your professional estate, tax on employees [...], special pensioners tax and so on (they're very very imaginative.)" Eighty percent for taxes?! Yikes! No wonder he sometimes bills only a smile. Imagine the look on the tax man's face when he opens the envelope and dumps out a smirk (80% of a smile.) So that this additional summary is connected with the original, I include the previous message below. Corrected exchange rates are listed at the bottom. * * * > A few days ago I asked what one could expect to pay for an > experienced MapX/MapXtreme developer. I wasn't flooded with answers, > but everyone except one requested anonymity, so I will start off > with that one: MapInfo Corp.'s standard rate $2000 - $2500 per day. > My guess is that there is probably some room for negotiation in > that, but that's the top end. > > Apparently MapInfo must have snarfed up all the MapX/MapXtreme > consulting work because no other Americans (North, Central or South) > had anything to say. All other responses came from Europe. Here's > the spread: > > An employer in the UK: > £600 per day, experienced MapX/MapXtreme *consultant* (not > "programmer") > £50 per hr for a Delphi programmer > "I've never employed a techy prepared to work more than 8 hours a > day (and several of those hours are 'thinking about the best way to > do it')" > > For EXPERIENCED developers, a consultancy in the Netherlands > charges: > EURO 850 per day, excluding travel costs, expenses and VAT. > > An independent developer in the UK says: > "...working on a contract (daily-rate) basis with MapX / MapXtreme > would typically charge between UK Pounds 250 to 400. - Depending on > experience etc. > If you wanted to hire developer time from a small company or > consultancy, You would be looking at around UK Pounds 600 to 900 / > day. > Interesting to contrast daily rates for Contract developers with > typical annual salary for full-time employees doing the same job - > Much lower proportionally at £20,000 - £35,000 per year." > > * * * > According to the latest data from http://www.xe.com/ict/, the exchange rates for the above currencies are: 1 US Dollar = 0.688007 UK pounds 1 US Dollar = 1.14223 Euros -- - Bill Thoen ------------------------------------------------------------ GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 tel: 303-786-9961, fax: 303-443-4856 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.gisnet.com ------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________________________________ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body.
