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Originally Posted by iogames

$50?!?!
I know excellent coders that have worked for me at $15/h...
I go to Guru.com and many have talent

$15? Well, you get what you pay for. You may have had good luck so far with your transactions, but I think that is probably a train-wreck waiting to happen. If you want quality work, quality communication and some likelihood of getting support on code in the future, I don't see how you can get that at bottom of the barrel prices.

$50/hour for contract labor is actually quite reasonable. I'm sure there are some full time dedicated freelancers here, but personally, I do extra fleelance in my off time. My 9-5 is a professional database development position at a major telecommunications company. I can tell you that my comparable per-hour salary is significantly higher than $15/hour. There would be no incentive for me to do freelance at such a paltry rate, and I suspect many other of the professional coders here would be in the same lot with me.

Professional contract development can actually run well into the $125/hour or more range. Easy.