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Re:Freelancing: How to talk yourself into charging more by spacecowboy_lon on Friday December 05, 2014 @12:00PM (#8705475)
bit low for contracting I would set my day rate at between 2x-4x equivelent gross salary for tech/location

eg for bog standard perl work in UK Central London) id be charging a minimum of $700-800 perday.

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Re:Freelancing: How to talk yourself into charging more by kyllo on Friday December 05, 2014 @01:09PM (#8705869)
Basically $100/hour is a nice round number that seems to be roughly in line with the market for line of business application programming on a consulting basis. More specialized programming that requires particular problem domain expertise can command much higher rates, basically inversely correlated with the number of other devs who are able to do it.
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