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The state of the freelance job market - Exquisitejobs survey results
- ESPNbruddah 15y agoThis is the stuff HN is meant for.
- kylebragger 15y agoCreator of Tinyproj here. Would love to chat: email is in my profile.
- zdw 15y ago$63/hour seems very low for high skill specialized work like this. Assuming a 2000 hours/year (50 weeks, 40 hours/week), that's only 126k (gross, probably 50% of that net after insurance, healthcare, expenses, etc.), and I highly doubt most people working freelance work 2000 hours in a year as a whole lot of the job is unpaid hustle to get the next job. Most smart tech people are worth, at minimum, $100/hr in a consulting/freelancing capacity.
- blurry 15y agoTypo: "and the the overall average desired wage".
- templaedhel 15y agoFixed
- martey 15y agoIt might be a good idea to email applicants (or at least the people who filled out the survey) about these results. I couldn't find any information about it on the website or Twitter account, so if I hadn't seen it here, I probably would have missed it.
- templaedhel 15y agoThanks, I think I'll do that.
- acgourley 15y ago"There were a good spread of skills, with the vast majority checking web development, and far too many checking other (who are you and what do you do 47%!?)" Are you trolling us? The survey questions only had spots for web dev, design, ios and android. What about working on metrics, databases, desktop software, games, systems programming or just general server side code?