10K works out to $120k a year, that is about normal for a salaried senior level developer. Given that salary usually denotes 40 hr a week, 2 weeks vacation, sic

10K works out to $120k a year, that is about normal for a salaried senior level developer. Given that salary usually denotes 40 hr a week, 2 weeks vacation, sick leave, a portion of taxes paid and 401k matching. If any of those are not in the mix you have to reduce the compensation by that amount to come up with what it equates to in salary. if it is W-9 or 1099 that is about $80-$90k in compensation still at the bottom end of a senior developers salary. Developers naturally assume that there will be crunch times of 60-80 hours per week but if those kind of hours are the norm 10k is pretty low. I work in constant crunch of at least 60-80 hrs per week and my weekly earnings are slightly below the same as that monthly amount my monthly earning are around 3X that amount. I do corp to corp W-9, and I have a rare skill set but ruby developers are not exactly falling out of the trees either. 10K sounds about right to me, it is nothing spectacular and a ruby developer should be able to find that from a variety of potential employers. That said, you should expect normal working hours for that amount if they are a salaried developer, if they are contract you should expect around 30-35 hours a week.