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In my experience most companies that pay 150-300/hr are big companies who get their people through contracting agencies. Which agencies of course take about hal
by aeontech 17y ago
In my experience most companies that pay 150-300/hr are big companies who get their people through contracting agencies. Which agencies of course take about half of that for themselves. As a lone programmer, unless you are very good at marketing, you find work with smaller shops, or startups, which can't afford that kind of rate. So you end up with roughly the same range ($90-150/hr) in pocket, whether working alone, or through a contract firm.
- SMrF 17y agoSo the problem is not that the market for programmers is too big, it's the other way around: the market of jobs available at a better rate is too small and larger companies have this market cornered. My hourly rate expectation was based on a few years working at Accenture and seeing rates for Java programmers. I figured it would be adjusted down for individual developers, but I didn't realize it would be that much.
- aeontech 17y agoWell, yeah, of course certain languages and skills are in much higher demand in corporate world, hence pay a lot higher. But my personal criteria for now is more about whether I will enjoy working somewhere and learn useful things, rather than the amount of money I can make. I could get a dead-boring programming job and make probably 50% more than I do now, but right now I feel like I am learning a lot more, and like people I'm working with a lot more than I would in that situation.
- hallmark 17y agoWere the rates for Java programmers that: - Accenture was hiring to build internal infrastructure for Accenture - Accenture was hiring as subcontractors for Accenture's own consulting contracts - worked fulltime for Accenture and were being hired out and billed to Accenture's clients