O/T : Looking for an entry level LAMP developer for contract work.

[Keith Smith]

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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Keith Smith