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Wow, $200 a week for 40 hours. That works out to $5 an hour. Is that a livable wage even in Eastern Europe? I think I need to find another trade.
by kungfooey 17y ago
Wow, $200 a week for 40 hours. That works out to $5 an hour. Is that a livable wage even in Eastern Europe?
I think I need to find another trade.
- scorpioxy 17y agoI highly doubt it is. $200 a week can definitely get you a shopping cart. But so can $10. And I am not sure how well it will work. Usually for that kind of money you'd get someone customizing or re-branding an off-the-shelf open source one or some programmer trying his hand out at writing it from scratch. Use of open source components is fine and probably the way to go but its not ethical if you don't tell your client that you're doing so otherwise use a framework. I'd say something like $500 should get you a shopping cart with the regular functionality. Probably $200 for customizing an existing off-the-shelf one. Of course these are just my opinions and experience, so they might be completely off target.
- robryan 17y agoYou get what you pay for, just in terms of what the freelancer perceives to be decent money. Paying someone from a cheaper country $5 an hour will probably give the same kind of hacky late rush job that giving someone local $10 an hour.
- unnamed_newbie 17y agoFor some countries it is enough. For example, the minimum wage in Romania is $180 and in Bulgaria it is $170. If you work 8 hours per day, 5 days peer week, and 4 weeks per month, then you can make $5 * 8 * 5 * 4 = $800 per month. This is 4 times the minimum wage in Romania and Bulgaria -- it is more than enough.