From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 25 7:29:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blues.hodgsonhouse.com (blues.hodgsonhouse.com [24.72.10.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BF7437B425 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 07:29:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by blues.hodgsonhouse.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 00D757F510; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 09:29:19 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 09:29:19 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson To: Jeff MacDonald Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Wages for Perl / RDBMS programmers. Message-ID: <20020325092919.A5508@hodgsonhouse.com> References: <20020325111418.R2839-100000@bart.bignose.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020325111418.R2839-100000@bart.bignose.ca>; from jeff@tsunamicreek.com on Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 11:17:30AM -0400 X-Editor: Vim Rocks! http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt Rocks! http://www.mutt.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 11:17:30AM -0400, Jeff MacDonald wrote: > Wages aren't what they once were in 1998 in the tech industry. > I'm wondering what fee's people usually expect for contract > programming. > > One thing to keep in mind is that you would probably charge > less per hour for longer contracts versus shorter ones. > > Out of curiosity, if you had a 7 hour/day contract for 6+months > , 5 days a week. Doing perl and rdbms stuff and enough html > to do the interfaces for perl forms etc. > > Just curious what other folks expect in the industry, oh, > and please state waht currenty you are talking about. > > jeff SAGE publishes a yearly salary review. While the opic isn't precisely programming contact work it's still a valuable tool. http://www.usenix.org/sage/jobs/salary_survey/salary_survey.html -T -- Myrmecophaga Jubata: Ant-eater. The existence of this predator demonstrates that thinking 71% of the time, as ants do, won't prevent you from being eaten. Thinking less than that, as humans do, will almost guarantee it. The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message