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You should probably quadruple that rate, my friend. Contracting should not be at the same rate as salaried.

• milliondollar 8y ago
  Yes, totally agree. You need to smooth your earnings and account for downtime. But in seeing all these $50/60K salaries on here, I guess what I'm wondering is I'd happily pay a fixed retainer of say $25K a year for 10-15 hours of work per week. I don't have enough work to keep a $60K a year developer busy, but I could keep a part of one busy all year and make a commitment to pay at least $X / year.
  • sah2ed 8y ago
    Sounds like freelancer position you have on your hands. You should consider posting your position to the Whoishiring thread tomorrow. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18113145 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18113145
    • milliondollar 8y ago
      Thank you! I've never read those threads but will be on there!!!