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As a consulting programmer, I can imagine you might get paid $420/hr in a few rare cases: 1. You built something really complex and a very rich client needs em
by shimon 17y ago
As a consulting programmer, I can imagine you might get paid $420/hr in a few rare cases:
1. You built something really complex and a very rich client needs emergency help with it.
2. You are extraordinarily famous and a very rich client feels they must have you.
3. You are convincingly misrepresenting yourself as a team of 7 hardworking people.
4. You have an unusually efficient way of doing something, so you can win fixed-cost-for-deliverables contracts and execute them in fewer hours.
As for what a mortal working as a consultant can normally achieve, $420/h is more than twice what I would consider a very good rate. Only under very unusual circumstances can I imagine a programmer billing at this rate, even on a large corporate client.
Well, maybe if you were working for a bank...
- jrockway 17y agoI make almost exactly $420 an hour when I teach training classes. Of course, there is much work that went into developing those classes that I get no hourly wage for at all. So I think of it in terms of, "I need to teach x courses a year" rather than $x/hour. But technically, that is what the client pays.