John Sechrest wrote: > A living wage from the public perception is in the $11-$12 range.
If I'm not mistaken, you have employees, you know the drill. You're paying an additional ~20% in benefits on top of that which a contractor has to pay for himself. And I'm not sure what kind of "living" that is, though I'm willing to bet it involves just barely paying off the interest on your credit cards, which you have maxed out because you're not getting paid enough. I would call it more surviving to be a widget in someone else's business plan than actually living. > You can see some interesting wage discussions at > > http://www.nlihc.org/oor/oor2006/ > > If $20/hr is not a good wage (and I am not saying that it is) > What is the wage that is reasonable for this post? $60/hr is reasonable, since it's open source and you could turn around and sell customizations and tech support for it. Think about the costs for any sort of skilled tradesman, they're making $50/hr and up for jobs that involve at most minimal design work and while there's some education required for them, they don't require the same degree, or the continued investment in education (a hammer is still a hammer, but APIs change with the breeze) that programming does. For their white collar analogues like investment counselors, accountants, lawyers, doctors, etc. you can double that figure easily. So for a competent professional programmer $60/hr for contract work is actually sort of low ball, but with it being open source there's the possibility of other revenue streams from it. YMMV J. Toman _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
