I appreciate your feedback. I was actually trying to find someone who
had some kills but no resume experience so they could get their foot in
the door. I by no means want to be a slum lord - I hate that. I was
thinking I would find someone who was working at a non-IT job making
less than $36k a year that wanted to get things going. I know at one
point I would have loved an opportunity like what I am offering. And I
fully expect this person would move on unless I can get more money
budgeted. I wanted to offer a service not take advantage.
On the AZPHP list I was told entry level is $50k plus. I think that
label is really a mid range developer because this was someone who had
experience. I was told to get an intern or a student. Funny thing is
the only student who was interested, wanted to work through the hiring
process with another company that was offering $40/hr.
On 2015-07-22 15:09, Michael Butash wrote:
> I actually sent that to a buddy of mine too as he knows folks that do
> that sort of work more than I do, and even he was like "that's why I
> don't do *that* anymore, now you know why most websites are so bad".
> Sort of echo'd my thoughts.
>
> I saw a sign at QT that they pay 60k/yr for store managers (with
> health care). I know some dev's that don't make much more after years
> of experience and college, and usually herding cats either way.
>
> I humor myself thinking Microsoft (and sun/oracle for java) made such
> a terrible precedent for turning out bad *developers* for so long, its
> objectified the dev field as slave labor in some circles. I also know
> some really terrible dev's that make a lot too for unapparent reasons,
> I just hope their apps don't crap all over my network (but most do).
>
> -mb
>
>
> On 07/22/2015 10:45 AM, Keith Smith wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I posted for an entry level LAMP developer a week or so ago figuring I
>> would find a number of people wanting to break into LAMP development.
>> What I received was a lackluster response. I was offering $22/hr 1099
>> with the potential to bill 40 hours a week. I figured by the time
>> that person pays for health insurance figured at $250/mo, pays he self
>> employment tax, and takes some vacation time and holiday time off,
>> this compensation would be about $18 an hour W2 or $36,000 a year.
>>
>> Here is the contract description:
>>
>> I am looking for an entry level LAMP developer. Would like someone
>> with entry level PHP skills and entry level Linux skills. Stuff like
>> the ability to add a user, add a sudo user, and configure vhosts on
>> apache. I will give directions with examples and they will be working
>> on a development VPS so if they blow it we just spin up another. As
>> for PHP skills if this person knows how to write a MySql connection
>> string and is able to insert, update, delete and list.... this person
>> could be what I am looking for. This is a maintenance job. This
>> person would need to know some HTML and CSS. jQuery would be a plus.
>>
>> This contract could last as long as 2 or 3 years. At that point we
>> would need to either up the compensation or understand when this
>> person takes off for other opportunities.
>>
>> Is the compensation fair? Any ideas why I received such a lukewarm
>> response?
>>
>>
>> Your feedback is much appreciated.
>>
>> Keith
>>
>>
>
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