{"id":1918,"date":"2010-06-01T08:45:23","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T13:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2010-06-01T22:11:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T03:11:48","slug":"how-much-can-a-person-expect-to-earn-as-a-website-developer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2010\/how-much-can-a-person-expect-to-earn-as-a-website-developer\/","title":{"rendered":"How much can a person expect to earn as a website developer?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Preface:<\/p>\n

In this article I listed some hourly rates you could charge depending on your skills, experience and talents. I wanted to point out that these numbers are not written in stone because of a few other factors:<\/p>\n

– Where you live.
\n– How the economy is doing.
\n– Where technology is going.<\/p>\n

So for example, someone living in Bangkok Thailand will probably get paid a lot less than someone living in New York city because everything is much cheaper in Thailand. For instance, an apartment that would cost you $500 in Bangkok will cost you $3000 in New York. So keep this in mind when reading.<\/p>\n

– <\/p>\n

Hi,<\/p>\n

I get a lot of web design and web programming related questions thrown at me and from time to time I use them as the basis of a blog post:<\/p>\n

Tell me if you will. How much can a person expect to earn as a website developer?<\/p>\n

Thanks again. I am hoping to make this a new career for me.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My answer: <\/p>\n

How much can a person expect to earn as a website developer?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Depends on where you live, your skills, talent and experience. So let’s say you’re Mr. average, pretty good at what you do, but not one of those rare ultra-nerds or ultra-designers.<\/p>\n

Once you have basic web design skills in place:<\/p>\n

– html
\n– css
\n– basic design skills<\/p>\n

.. You can make the lower end of a middle class living. So of many places, that’s about $15-25 hr – depending on your talents.<\/p>\n

Once you add these skills:<\/p>\n

– PHP (able to do simple things and modify scripts in simple ways)
\n– Javascript – same level as PHP<\/p>\n

… Then you can at another $5-10hr to that base. Again, depends on your depth of knowledge and talent.<\/p>\n

Finally, if you can add to that:<\/p>\n

– An understanding of web architecture.
\n– SEO
\n– Usablility
\n– More advanced PHP\/ Javascript skills.
\n– Some experience under your belt.<\/p>\n

… Then you can start finding yourself making much more. Experience and talent do play a major role in this.<\/p>\n

In my heyday as a Java web programmer, I was billing out at $200 hr.<\/p>\n

I hope that helps.<\/p>\n

Stefan Mischook
\nkillersites.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\nHi,<\/p>\n

I get a lot of web design and web programming related questions thrown at me and from time to time I use them as the basis of a blog post:<\/p>\n

“Tell me if you will. How much can a person expect to earn as a website developer?
\nThanks again. I am hoping to make this a new career for me.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,12,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions\/1939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}