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Posted by Andy Dingley on 08/02/07 19:18
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 11:03:36 -0500, SAZ <saz1958@nospamexcite.com> wrote:
>> More to the point, every teenager and their dog is writing (bad) PHP
>> these days and there are no good jobs in it. You can certainly get
>> such a job, but it's a minimum wage sort of role and you're thrown
>> into a vast pit of undistinguished crappy-coders.
>What? PHP is a minimum wage job? A halfway decent PHP coder can
>command $40/hour or more as a freelancer. I love PHP jobs. They are
>typically 20 - 30 hour projects and I get $60/hour with no problem.
If you're happy with $40/hour, then good luck to you.
How much does simple low-end HTML from Dreamweaver pay locally?
How much does halfway competent Java pay?
Of these two figures, which one is the PHP rate closer to?
I'm not disputing the existence of good PHP jobs, just that they're
rare. The majority of the roles (certainly in the UK) regard PHP as
being at the bottom of the skills hierarchy, not the top. Most PHP
coders _do_ only have minimal skills: it's the sort of easy-access
platform which is accessible to people who don't need or want to take
things any further than that. However that does foster an image
(incorrecltly) that PHP can _only_ deserve low-end rates. It's the old
problem in IT recruitment: matching buzzwords is easy, judging personal
skills is hard.
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