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no. not sure about contractor rates, but in major centres (NYC and SF), a starting salary for top tech firms is very approximately $100k/yr (within a standard
by thefastlane 10y ago
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not sure about contractor rates, but in major centres (NYC and SF), a starting salary for top tech firms is very approximately $100k/yr (within a standard deviation). now, even a front-end dev would be expected to know algorithms, big-o notation, (maybe OOP as well), etc, etc, to get through the interview process at a top firm and secure such as a salary, but it gives us a reference point.
so, just using that, extrapolate from there depending on:
1) firm you work for (not everyone works at Google [or wants to] ...) -- if you go work for a non-profit, maybe that's more like 70k or 80k, or whatever.
2) where you live -- but salary does not go up/down linearly with cost-of-living, so don't shave off too much just because the cost of living is lower somewhere else.