OT: Going rate for LAMP jobs

[Jonathan Ben Avraham]

Hi Geoff,

There is no going rate.

The rate that you get depends on how much money the client has to spend 
on the project, the client's own estimate of what the project should 
cost (which might be severely disconnected from fantasy, to say nothing of 
reality) the client's perception of the value of your work and your 
ability to communicate with the client. You need to be able to guess what 
the client thinks and then set the rate accordingly. If that rate turns 
out to be too low for you then you need to move on to the next client.

  - yba


On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Geoff Shang wrote:

> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:15:48 +0200 (IST)
> From: Geoff Shang <geoff at QuiteLikely.com>
> To: linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il
> Subject: OT: Going rate for LAMP jobs
> 
> Hi,
>
> I've been offered work on a (presumably) one-off project, writing some PHP 
> code to collect data from devices out in the field and store it in a MySQL 
> database, to provide information/updates (as yet not fully specified) back to 
> these devices, and web pages to allow users to track the information sent in 
> by the devices.
>
> Sounds reasonably straight-forward enough, though I've not yet asked for the 
> specifics.
>
> My question is, what is the going rate for work like this?  The person asking 
> is in the US but obviously they're happy to go off-shore for this so it's not 
> just the US I need to worry about.  I'm of course prepared to be flexible but 
> I don't want to under-sell myself if I decide to take it, and there are other 
> reasons why I may not.
>
> Thanks,
> Geoff.
>
>
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