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My current daily rate is $9/hour, I work in Indonesia I work as iOS Developer, I have 8 years of experience in IT and only 1 year in iOS Dev.

But I hope my hour rate will increase soon :)

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On your next contract, quote your rate as $50 or $75 and see what happens. no harm in testing the waters :)

The minimum wage in Australia is $16.87, according to the article below. I'd have ethical & possibly even legal issues if I contracted someone at less than the national minimum wage. You should definitely charge more.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/minimum-wage-up-3-per-cent-ri...

Why? The minimum wage in Australia and it's legal boundaries do not apply to other countries. Plus, I don't see why there is an ethical issue in outsourcing work to another country where rates are lower.

The assumption you are probably making is that $9 an hour is too low. That's right if you are in Australia, but is that low for Indonesia?

Not sure about Indonesia but in Thailand that's about average for junior - mid level.

I worked in a company where they paid their head of mobile $13/hour and he was managing 3 Android devs and 3 iOS devs, each being paid between $6 and $9/hour.

One of the people I worked with directly as a marketing content writer was making $3/hour.

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