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You should rise your rate to 2-4x that, and only bother talking to companies that accept such rates (possibly in other regions). If they haggle and you like the
by jononor 4y ago
You should rise your rate to 2-4x that, and only bother talking to companies that accept such rates (possibly in other regions). If they haggle and you like them / the project, give a symbolic discount like 20%.
- tpxl 4y agoWhere do you find work as a contractor btw? I tried LinkedIn and Hacker news, but didn't get that much uptake.
- atraac 4y agoI know you probably should request at least 80 eur/h as a freelance but finding a company willing to go for that out of nowhere is impossible. You need really good network to be able to do this. Chance of a company offering a random dude from the internet those rates is near zero. They can hire two cheap devs for that and profit much more, even if those developers will do worse job than you. A lot also depends on the stack you work in. .NET is not as hot as React f.e.
- cutler 4y agoIn the UK, according to Indeed.com, there are as many .Net jobs as Java. Comparing React with a back-end technology such as .Net is apples to oranges, no?
- ris58h 4y agoAre you speaking from the experience of polish contractor?