Why does custom programming cost so much ?

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Originally posted by Mike AI@Mar 25 2005, 12:35 PM
A top PHP programmer is worth $35-$42k a year.

That be Florida prices

I researched out a couple of years back (2000) while thinking about moving permanently to Fort Myers.

At the time I was making about 75K salary and bonuses. Went down there, interviewed with several folk, had offers... All of them sucked.

Got back here and did some more research and discovered that I was looking in an area that paid about 20% below the average in the Midwest.

And PHP programmers, especially in adult, do tend to work cheaper..

But a programmer and a database designer are really two different animals (often occupying one brain) as HellPuppy pointed out in Ryan's thread. More and more the adult net is needing good backend database designers to pull of the stuff they want to pull off.