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Here's a thought. I'm interested in picking up some contracting work again and my recurring work rate is $50/hr. I'm a senior developer who currently does Sysadmin, dbadmin, and leads development and architecture of our start up's software.

Oh I just realized ycomb doesn't have plans capability. Could you PM me on Reddit where my username is homebrewingcoder .

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You should probably quadruple that rate, my friend. Contracting should not be at the same rate as salaried.

Yes, totally agree. You need to smooth your earnings and account for downtime.

But in seeing all these $50/60K salaries on here, I guess what I'm wondering is I'd happily pay a fixed retainer of say $25K a year for 10-15 hours of work per week. I don't have enough work to keep a $60K a year developer busy, but I could keep a part of one busy all year and make a commitment to pay at least $X / year.

Sounds like freelancer position you have on your hands. You should consider posting your position to the Whoishiring thread tomorrow.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18113145

Thank you! I've never read those threads but will be on there!!!

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