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Perhaps you've been very lucky or found some especially naive people (right out of grad school, perhaps). Your rates immediately struck me as the kind of rate y
by drunkpotato 13y ago
Perhaps you've been very lucky or found some especially naive people (right out of grad school, perhaps). Your rates immediately struck me as the kind of rate you would quote if you'd never, in fact, tried to hire somebody skilled. I allow the possibility you have been lucky and successful.
In general you'll be paying upwards of $250/hr for a machine learning specialist (sometimes upwards of $500/hr if they have a modicum of talent and experience) and more than $120/hr for a front-end webdev who can claim anything more than "I've heard of jQuery." Those are contracting rates of course; hiring somebody at salary has its own costs.
- dhimes 13y agoYou caught me: I've not hired a domain expert coder. But I've also not paid $120/hr for front-end coders. I over-paid for one guy who knew far less than I did- horrible coding practice, always thought he was farther along on the project than he really was (and wanted money), and, in fact, never got far enough to even understand the problem before I terminated the agreement. For $120/hr the person isn't fiddling- they've done it before, probably have a personal library they can pull, and a basic shell of a website can be ready pretty quickly. Their time is almost entirely spent on the custom part of the site.
- drunkpotato 13y agoFair enough. I think my response was biased towards professionals who you can be sure will do the job quickly, not learning on your dime.
- gte910h 13y agoStill it doesn't necessarily pay. There is a very large productivity gap between different people, for different tasks in software development (in the 1-50x range).
- jiggy2011 13y agoYou can get people competent with jquery for much less than $120/hour. Much much less if you are willing to look at remote workers overseas.