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It's a shame that you can't do a multi part poll. I'd love to know people's rates _and_ their years of experience, language, industry, etc.

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84.7/hr 15 years experience Polyglot, full stack, DevOps, and Linux Sysmin Industry: Tech Area: Hampton Roads, Virginia

I bet you could raise your rate quite a bit. I'm 20y exp mostly typescript and front ends these days but very much a polyglot background and I run up and down the stack all the time. I charge $225, which tbh I feel is low for my level of expertise. I'm based in NYC but that shouldn't matter as much these days.

The Stackoverflow Survey gives a great insight i to these metrics: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/

'Students' have 4.86 years of professional coding experience according to the survey, which is just weird. Given that, I wouldn't trust the data much.

Hey now, anyone can be a student for life.

Many compsci students I know are now doing internships in their freshmen year. By the time their seniors they're often balancing school with some other sort of ongoing program

I'm sure that number is inflated, but there's still some truth to it

For it to be actual full time experience in a 5 year program, almost every student would have to work full time their whole college to get to that number. I worked summers and almost full time in my masters, which was above average for my college, and I don't know if I got to equivalent two years full-time.

It is possible people mistook "professional experience" for "experience", but that still takes the data into question.

Yeah fair enough. Clearly this is most likely just a direct result of job postings over-relying on "minimum X years of experience, no exception" clauses. If truths didn't get stretched, very few people would ever qualify for tech jobs haha

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