Sir, One of specialities is working with the SE Asia Firms and from my converstions with them your rate seems to be an anomally since I have had to put out subcontracting bids for other developers to help when I am swamped,most of my replies have been in the $20-30 range. Also Sir you do not have to deal with the IRS and Social Security Administration, State, and Local Taxes so yes normally $40 is a good rate. I recently posted for $25 per hour and was overwhelmed with potential clients asking for my services , I was also talked about as if I was a fool by some of my fellow programmers here in the US. Regardless I was not meaning anything about race more so to the fact that because you do not have to deal with US taxes and the company has no Tax ID to report to the US Government, then they of course are willing to pay you and are happy to do it. I have often thought of opening an offshore company in maybe Costa Rica or Barbados in order to get those same benefits as you are proud of receiving. But in effect you are cheap for US companies because of the Tax Liability and Government Pension payments. Even as an offshore company you do not have a US Tax ID, I am sure the IRS could not take you to jail or haul you off to court another advantage you have. Again no pun on SE Asian my Step Mother was from Canton China before she came here to the US, and I love Taiwan and Hong Kong but guess what her brother who I learned some of my programming skills from also runs an offshore programming shop charging 35 per hour, and he is rich; living in Hong Kong. No way a US programmer could be considered Rich here for charging that rate. I wonder do you live in a Villa, how much money do you make out of the 40 per hour or does the whole company get paid that and then it is divided , you see here if a developer shared 40 per hour with his partners he would need 15 clients ,working for all of them to survive!
>I'm running an offshore ColdFusion developer from Jakarta, that is >south east Asia. >My company's rate is US$40/man/hour, i think it's not that cheap :) > >Currently we have 0 customers that won't pay us. >Infact, we never ask for down payment cause we're 100% sure that our >client will benefit from our work, thus pay the bill. > >To prevent this situation, for new client we usually break down large >project into smaller pieces. >And do the small piece first, see whether they satisfy with our work >- and pay before we continue with the rest. > >Regards, >Rizal > > >At 09:30 PM 2/2/2008, you wrote: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Jobs-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:3619 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Jobs-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.11
