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Re:Seattle Police Will Hire Programmer and Prolific Records ... by krapp on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @07:32PM (#9417882)
>This is less than what high school kids routinely get paid to do HTML

The '90s ended a long time ago.

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Re:Seattle Police Will Hire Programmer and Prolific Records ... by danso on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @08:13PM (#9417945)
In the 90s, $30 was $46 in today's dollars...so while the value of basic front-end code has declined...so has the value of $30.
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Re:Seattle Police Will Hire Programmer and Prolific Records ... by krapp on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @09:50PM (#9418254)
Still, people make far less per hour doing far more than basic front-end work today.

Don't get me wrong, I think he should make as much as he can get away with making, but 22.00 an hour really isn't scraping the bottom of the barrel for programming work in a lot of places, not even in the US.

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Re:Seattle Police Will Hire Programmer and Prolific Records ... by learc83 on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @02:05AM (#9418852)
$22 an hour for programming is definitely scrapping the bottom of the barrel in the US (unless you're an intern or trainee).

I live in a pretty cheap area of the US, and the only place I've seen jobs paying that poorly is on odesk (and most of these jobs are taken by people in low cost of living countries).

If you're working for $22 an hour, you're selling yourself short.

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