That's the source of confusion - hourly rate for an employee or hourly rate for a consultant. A consult figures billing 1000 hours a year and all else is gravy, so if you want 150k, bill $150 an hour. An employee figures annual salary / 2000. $75 an hour that way is pretty good money (especially with benefits)
And there is a whole lot of difference in value between a "coder" and an business analyst/ software designer.
>>>>>>>>Those numbers look awfully low to me. I haven't worked for as little as $80/hour in a very long time.
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>>>>>>>>FWIW, I've heard of people trying to hire VFP developers for as little as $25/hour (but not finding anyone). I've also heard of people billing as much as $200/hour.
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>>>>>>>Welcome to the rest of the world where not everyone is writing books, giving lectures, and counting their gold.
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>>>>>>Ha. "I got $600 for my scrap gold!"
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>>>>>Yeah, I know no one is getting rich off of their MVP, books and lectures, but I think Tamar is a bit clouded in her thinking if she thinks $80 an hour is on the low side. If we asked everyone here to say what they get paid anonymously, I bet it would be much lower, based on a standard deviation or some other way of taking the anomalies out.
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>>>>The point was that the link listed $80 as the _high_ value. I pointed out that it was too low as the high value. I think said I'd heard of numbers in the range $25-$200. I imagine the median is lower than $80.
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>>>"Those numbers look awfully low to me. I haven't worked for as little as $80/hour in a very long time."
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>>>And their low number was about $65/hr, not the $25 you said you've heard people work for. Don't you think that they have already removed the $200 and $25 from the equation? Your posts implies that the rates referenced were way too low, not just the high value. I say that the mid bar, at about $75/hr, is actually higher than us average VFP coders get. I bet it's more like $40/hr for the average Joe working permanent.
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>$40.00 translates to about 80K. Thats pretty good money. Throw in health ins. and it's becomes very nice package.
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