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Expect 500 euros per day for a cheap developer in Eastern Europe. Maybe similar for Indian outsourcing or Latin American. Expect over a 1000 dollars per day fo
by user5994461 8y ago
Expect 500 euros per day for a cheap developer in Eastern Europe. Maybe similar for Indian outsourcing or Latin American.
Expect over a 1000 dollars per day for a qualified developer in a first world location.
Point being. No individual can pay that much and the develop should rather get a day job unless the software has high earning potential.
- progval 8y ago> No individual can pay that much and the develop should rather get a day job You could create a cooperative of users that hires one or two developers to work for all of them.
- shoo 8y agothis is probably not too dissimilar from starting a business that grows a collection of users willing to pay fees to receive custom patches / support for the open source software
- terragon 8y agoWhich developer in a first world country has 30k a month in salary? $1000 a day is beyond ridiculous!
- ghaff 8y agoFor a qualified contractor? $100 per billable hour is extremely reasonable. They're not on the clock all the time. When I did consulting work (not writing software but tech-related) I charged way more than that although it was usually based on jobs rather than hours. ADDED: And, if you're contracting through a larger firm, they're adding various overheads associated with managing the project, etc.
- user5994461 8y agoThey are standard rates for contracting and outsourcing firms. 500 euro a day is about 100k a year, accounting for 200 work days in a year. Remove the margin of the firm, pension, healthcare, sick leave, company taxes, office costs, benefits... and what's left is the gross salary.