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I am not sure if I understand your point correctly. Are you implying that clients only hire beginners on UpWork? I am hiring there and I certainly have to pay
by TekMol 5y ago
I am not sure if I understand your point correctly. Are you implying that clients only hire beginners on UpWork?
I am hiring there and I certainly have to pay way more than $5 per hour. My experience is that the price for software development starts at about $25/hour. That is for a student with a little bit of experience and rather low morale. Devs with actual work experience start at about $50 per hour. Again, morale will be kinda low at that price. For a really smart, motivated dev with a lot of experience, you have to pay more.
- ahartmetz 5y ago> Are you implying that clients only hire beginners on UpWork? Well, low quality work. Yes. But, unlike you, I have only internet hearsay as sources.
- Grimm1 5y agoI wound up not taking it because I had something that at the time seemed easier for me, but I negotiated a $100/hr contract on UpWork just fine looking for some part time work to hold me over on something. This was in the Data Engineering space fwiw.
- ahartmetz 5y agoGood to hear. Note, I'm a freelancer as well, so my information is only incomplete about Upwork. I know the local (Germany) agencies with the usual rates, 75-100€/h for C++ work.
- rl1987 5y agoDoesn't it matter where is the developer from? There's a lot of places in the world where $50/hr is way above local market rates, but is it easy for a developer outside US or UK to make that much on Upwork?
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