But you are a student, there are many benefits to a company choosing a developer that comes with years of developing enterprise grade, scalable applications. For small web app projects, true, for enterprises, I doubt they'll want to save $40 an hour, to later have to redo the whole project, due to the fact that who ever developed it to begin with, had little experience with developing such apps.
As you see, many US and other high wage countries, are in a way effected by people from India, Russia, China, etc... bidding on project, but not too many companies are willing to take the rist. Go to any bidding site, and see how it effects the bids. Elance is a great place to look at this bid process. Project A US Contractor bid: $45,000 USD UK Contractor bid: $40,000 USD Indian Contractor bid: $2,500 USD You'd think why wouldn't a corp go with the lower bid, well, there are many cons, that outweight the pros. Go to elance, and see which bids are being awarded the projects, and you'll see. Nothing against the folks in those countries or their bids, as they bid equivalent of what it's worth there. I myself, own a business, and had at some point thought about outsourcing stuff to India, in the process, I make the difference, and do no work, and do not have to pay my employees $40+ an hour, but on 95% of projects, the downsides of this, prevented us from outsourcing. Ilya -----Original Message----- From: Alexandre Jaquet To: Struts Users Mailing List Sent: 3/27/03 5:51 PM Subject: Re: [OT] Contract Work: Going Rate? or maybe he will get more job's than the others ... less the rathing he's more client will came ... I'm a student but I take lots of contracts from clients who believe compagnies offer service so expensive for the same job. That's why I'm so busy lol. -- Alexandre Jaquet ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sterin, Ilya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Andrew Hill '" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Struts Users Mailing List '" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 8:56 PM Subject: RE: [OT] Contract Work: Going Rate? > 30*3000 is more than your whole entire career earnings? Where are you from? > India? Russia? > > In US that's an average developer contract salary, and $30/hour is a charge > that most contractors will laugh at here. > > Ilya > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Hill > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Sent: 3/27/03 1:32 AM > Subject: RE: [OT] Contract Work: Going Rate? > > These are USD per HOUR? > > Crikey! You could retire after a couple of years on that! > Nah that cant be right. I did a bit under 3000 hours last year, multiply > by > 30 and convert to local currency adds up to more than Ive earned in my > whole > working life (4+ years). A lot more... > > Are those fair dinkum rates or are you just having us on? > > Five weeks holiday??? OT pay??? > > Yeh. Thought so. Its a joke. hehe. You had me going there mate! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Simon Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 27 March 2003 16:08 > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: [OT] Contract Work: Going Rate? > > > These are some going full time rates for a London based e-learning > company, > for an average of 1880 hrs worked in one year (Five weeks holiday not > included in the figures, but you'd get the same rate). The company pays > OT > on projects that need it, but actually limit the number of hours in a > week > that an employee can be in the office. (Something about a work/life > balance, > whatver than means :-) > > All in US dollars (converted from blighty pounds) > > Grade one (Whipping boy) - 30$ > Grade two (Code monkey) - 40$ > Grade three (Designer) - 55$ > Grade four (Architect) - 90$ > Grade five (Senior Architect) - 150$ > > These don't include the options and bonuses (last xmas bonus ranged from > 500$ to 6000$) and the OT isn't in there (Usually 1.5*hourly > week-day/sat -- > 2*hourly sun). > > Contractor have to pay all the insurance and stuff, so I'd dap about > 22-40% > on top of each of these + a little extra if your gonna have to live in > an > expensive part of town. > > NOTE to the lawer. It only becomes illegal if it can be proven that we > have > set a level of pay *and* have all agreed to follow this level. If > you've > been on here long enough, you'd know *noone* ever agrees about > anything!! > =]:0) > > Good luck with the job, I hear California is nice this time of year!! > > Cheers > > Simon > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Micael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > "'Struts > Users Mailing List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 8:08 AM > Subject: RE: [OT] Contract Work: Going Rate? > > > > I hope you know that my prior response that the lawyer should be fired > was > > not aimed at you, Tammy. I appreciate your assistance. I think it is > > really funny, however, that a lawyer would actually associate what we > are > > doing with antitrust behavior. Heck, I feel bigger and better > > now. LOL! That lawyer needs to get the tune to match the lyrics. > > > > At 08:49 PM 3/26/03 -0800, Tammy Cravit wrote: > > > > general landscape well (Tomcat, Struts, Ant, etc., etc., with > Linux, > > > > scripting, various databases, etc.). What would a reasonable > request > > > > be? Thanks. > > > > > >First of all, I would caution about asking questions like this on a > > >mailing list, as the discussion of hourly rates and stuff came up on > > >another list I belong to and the moderators there obtained an opinion > > >from a lawyer that discussing pricing in terms of specific dollar > > >amounts in a group like this could be deemed price-fixing by the > courts, > > >which is illegal. > > > > > >That having been said, one common rule of thumb seems to be to divide > > >your annual salary as an employee by 1000, and using that as a > starting > > >point for figuring out your hourly rate. 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