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[Kristina Anderson]

In 1999 I knew basically not a whole lot, I was a green a** newbie with 
some Javascript skills and a liberal arts degree, and I pulled 
$50/hr....true story! LOL.

Know more, less money, you got it!

Kristina

On 4/2/2011 3:32 PM, Michele Waldman wrote:
> 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
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> 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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