Agreed, very low. I asked for and received $125/hr back in 1999 for a complex assembler consulting job (BTAM/BDAM/multitasking/etc.). With inflation and time passing the starting rate for that kind of work has to go over $200/hr at the very least to attract anyone with the talent and experience.
If it is a truly junior position though, say maintaining and perhaps documenting old single-function utility ASM subroutines, that might not be a terrible starting point to negotiate upwards. Anything more complicated than that, start the negotiation higher, or much higher depending on the actual work to be done. Peter From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mike Shaw Sent: Friday, December 1, 2023 4:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Assembler programmer wanted Gotta be low... Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Chisoft On Fri, Dec 1, 2023, 3:23 PM Gord Tomlin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > On 2023-12-01 14:14 PM, Bob Bridges wrote: > > I think the rate is unusual > > Pure curiosity: unusually low or unusually high? > -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
