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Oh yeah... done the free ones... problem was, I
should of at least had royalties in a contract. One dude who paid me $500
& a phat lunch to do this insanely cool map game over 2 months has now,
after 2 years, become profitable. He was on CNN, etc. After the
project was done, I was broke, savings drained and had to move back in with my
parents... until I fought my way into IBM and things went up from
there.
It was worth it, though, that + other pieces for my
portfolio scored me later gigs.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Poll: Flex developer US$ rate?
Heh, have you tried free Jesse? :-) I knocked out a few solid
free one's in my early days to get something on there then was doing full
database driven sites for $500. :-) Its all about the portfolio when contracting
until you get your name out there and solid.
On 11/18/05, JesterXL
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Besides,
kind of hard to ask for $300 an hour when you have... oh, NOTHING
on your
resume to prove yo don't suck. I'll do whatever it takes to
succeed,
and if that meant taking jack money to get some cool projects on my
resume, so be it. Today, I don't need anymore, but back then, I'd
seriously
question wtf else you expected me to do.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Beynart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 18,
2005 12:17 PM
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Poll: Flex developer US$
rate?
Jesse, $20/hr is what I pay
people to dig holes in my yard! Anyone in
the US with development skills
working for that is depressing the market
and seriously shortchanging
themselves.
Since FLEX is aimed directly at the enterprise market and
is
fundamentally a presentation-tier platform, you could use Java/.NET
UI
developer rates as a rough guide. As I investigate the FLEX market,
it
appears to be closely tied to the Java market since many Java guys
are
adopting FLEX. I just took a FLEX class where I was the only Flash
guy
in a room full of Java people, and the assumption was that a
FLEX
developer would have deep Java experience.
As one of the "old
school Flash guys", I see FLEX paying more than Flash
development for
someone who knows AS2.0 inside and out. Flash seems to
top out at about $85
an hour for contract in the US on large projects,
and Flex trumps that just
in the few jobs I have looked at (for the NYC
area).
Of course
salary is a whole other beast, and I have no experience there
due to my
allergy to W2 forms.
Tim
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