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[Michele Waldman]

In '99, I was making $70-85/hr as an Oracle/C Programmer.

The interesting thing is how much more you have to know to be a web 
developer, especially if you work on the front end and the backend.

Know more, less money.

Michele

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From: "Kristina Anderson" <ka at kacomputerconsulting.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2011 12:20 PM
To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] How much is a site redesign worth?

> Ed,
>
> I've been a programmer in NYC for almost 13 years (maybe you assumed 
> otherwise because of my gender), I started out in 1998 making $50 an hour, 
> and I'm still making $50 an hour, and everyone else I know who is a PHP 
> programmer in NYC is making between $45-55 an hour as well (over 20 other 
> people that I personally know and have worked with).
>
> It's great to talk about what "should be" or what "could be" but the 
> reality is, $50 an hour.
>
> Kristina
>
> On 4/2/2011 11:20 AM, Edgar Reyes wrote:
>> I think we are talking about 2 different things here, one is programming 
>> and
>> the other is designing, Krista programmers in NYC make a lot more then 
>> $50
>> per hour, depending on your skill set and what language you program in. 
>> For
>> design work yes $50 per hour is about right for simple design work and 
>> even
>> that is in the lower end, and that can vary depending on the sort of 
>> design,
>> if it involves some sort of specialize CSS and or flash etc. then it goes
>> up.
>>
>> ER
>
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