Programmers - How much do you charge ?

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by boldy

$250 an hour here ...

[Trev]

Originally Posted by sarettah

Mad men... all of you!

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by Trev

Mad men... all of you!

Nothing crazy about it... Simple economics.

You come to me and say I want you to build such and such system that will make me a million bucks a year.

I build the system for you in 100 hours at $250.00 per hour. You have now invested $25,000.00

You turn on the system and run it for the year and you now have a million bucks that you have only invested $25,000.00 to get. In other words, my programming garnered a profit for you of 400% or so and on top of that, your investment of $25,000 was recouped in the first 9 days after you turned my system on.

I think a system like that is well worth paying me $250.00 an hour for.......

[Dravyk]

Originally Posted by sarettah

You turn on the system and run it for the year and you now have a million bucks that you have only invested $25,000.00 to get. In other words, my programming garnered a profit for you of 400% or so and on top of that, your investment of $25,000 was recouped in the first 9 days after you turned my system on.

a) That would be 4000% not 400.

b) Why pay someone who makes math errors?

c) Wouldn't a programmer at $30 per hour and a 28000% profit recouped in just over a month be even more desirable?


... Just breaking nuggets here.

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by Dravyk

a) That would be 4000% not 400.

b) Why pay someone who makes math errors?

c) Wouldn't a programmer at $30 per hour and a 28000% profit recouped in just over a month be even more desirable?


... Just breaking nuggets here.

Sorry for my math error....... fucking people think they actually require math for a computer degree... sheez.


Well, you could hire the $30.00 an hour guy and watch him flounder for the next year and a half with promises of "two weeks"... And then have my go on an unannounced hiatus and no longer answer your emails or icqs and end up hunting him down over at gfy and getting nothing but a piss thread out of your entire investment.

Or you could come to me and have it in the time line promised and working as spec'd....

[Trev]

Originally Posted by sarettah

Nothing crazy about it... Simple economics.

You come to me and say I want you to build such and such system that will make me a million bucks a year.

I build the system for you in 100 hours at $250.00 per hour. You have now invested $25,000.00

You turn on the system and run it for the year and you now have a million bucks that you have only invested $25,000.00 to get. In other words, my programming garnered a profit for you of 400% or so and on top of that, your investment of $25,000 was recouped in the first 9 days after you turned my system on.

I think a system like that is well worth paying me $250.00 an hour for.......

Sorry but even with a guarantee of making a mil in the first hour, I wouldn't pay $250 ph for a programmer, not when I can pay $50!

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by Trev

Sorry but even with a guarantee of making a mil in the first hour, I wouldn't pay $250 ph for a programmer, not when I can pay $50!

Reference my reply to Hairless......


but it also occurred to me that you're probably the kind that won't buy a lottery ticket when it's only up to 10 million because "aw, it ain't worth it"

[Trev]

Originally Posted by sarettah

Reference my reply to Hairless......


but it also occurred to me that you're probably the kind that won't buy a lottery ticket when it's only up to 10 million because "aw, it ain't worth it"

lol, I play the lotto, but that's by the by.

This thread is the reason I don't hire programmers. You love yourselves to much.

I'll stick to doing it for myself.

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by Trev

I'll stick to doing it for myself.

Did you make a million bucks last year ?

[Newton]

Originally Posted by sarettah

Reference my reply to Hairless......


but it also occurred to me that you're probably the kind that won't buy a lottery ticket when it's only up to 10 million because "aw, it ain't worth it"

Who's hairless?

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by Newton

Who's hairless?

Well, who's post did I reply to ?







(Hairless Harry aka Dravyk)