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I'd love to find some of those $200 and hour contracts... is he for real?

DanielBMarkham 19y ago
Just googling around, doesn't seem to be a real number. For instance, the 4th google hit for "ruby on rails contract" says "This is a 2 month contract position paying $40/hour" I know I just got through paying some RoR guys about twice that for some code monkey stuff. So the 40-80 range looks a lot more real than 200. Note that I'm not saying there isn't somebody out there making 200/hour, just it is not indicative of where the market is at. Heck, there's probably a few 200/hour COBOL programmers out there too, but that's not saying much for the idea of being a COBOL programmer. It's just an outlier.
- leoc 19y ago
  He did specify that as the rate for "premium Rails talent", as opposed to $100+ for "average rails talent". Presumably he defines "premium talent" as lying somewhere between "'senior' in the job title" and "Rails Core member or equivalent"; where exactly I don't know.
  - goodgoblin 19y ago
    Still, even a $125 an hour gig would be pretty awesome. Wouldn't mind leaving my mind-rotting intra-corp job for a few months of something like that. At least then I could work on the same platform as my startup - not only at night but all day.
- mechanical_fish 19y ago
  Well, of course you can't find $100/hr being offered on a random job board. Nobody is crazy enough to hire an unknown quantity off the street at those rates, no matter what the demand is. See Spolsky, Joel: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FindingGreatDevelopers.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FindingGreatDeveloper... The people who are working for $100+/hr are getting those jobs directly from the companies that auditioned them at $40-$80 per hour, or from friends-of-friends of the managers at those companies.
iamelgringo 19y ago
If Zed is working in Manhattan, that's probably pretty reasonable to assume. I doubt that you'd get that in Omaha, however.

Just googling around, doesn't seem to be a real number. For instance, the 4th google hit for "ruby on rails contract" says "This is a 2 month contract position paying $40/hour" I know I just got through paying some RoR guys about twice that for some code monkey stuff. So the 40-80 range looks a lot more real than 200. Note that I'm not saying there isn't somebody out there making 200/hour, just it is not indicative of where the market is at. Heck, there's probably a few 200/hour COBOL programmers out there too, but that's not saying much for the idea of being a COBOL programmer. It's just an outlier.

leoc 19y ago
He did specify that as the rate for "premium Rails talent", as opposed to $100+ for "average rails talent". Presumably he defines "premium talent" as lying somewhere between "'senior' in the job title" and "Rails Core member or equivalent"; where exactly I don't know.
- goodgoblin 19y ago
  Still, even a $125 an hour gig would be pretty awesome. Wouldn't mind leaving my mind-rotting intra-corp job for a few months of something like that. At least then I could work on the same platform as my startup - not only at night but all day.
mechanical_fish 19y ago
Well, of course you can't find $100/hr being offered on a random job board. Nobody is crazy enough to hire an unknown quantity off the street at those rates, no matter what the demand is. See Spolsky, Joel: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FindingGreatDevelopers.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FindingGreatDeveloper... The people who are working for $100+/hr are getting those jobs directly from the companies that auditioned them at $40-$80 per hour, or from friends-of-friends of the managers at those companies.

iamelgringo 19y ago

If Zed is working in Manhattan, that's probably pretty reasonable to assume. I doubt that you'd get that in Omaha, however.