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Originally Posted by MetaMan
i am not paying him, i am not that rich. it is a company. and no the people who run it are not off their rocker.
we are talking 7 days a week.
our site needs daily development. and we are training him for the future. we are talking sleeping and computer and that is it. we are in full scale mode. that is why the high price. you are asking someone to basically sacrifice everything for your company. and for a quality person to do that you have to pay them according.
if you boiled down the hours and his knowledge he is worth it. the time wasted screwing around with a bunch of programmers who pretend they know what they are doing when you are in scale mode is a waste of time and money.
you get one guy, pay him well, scale the hell out of it. and if its last only year no biggy.
dont blow smoke with your "master skill" that doesnt even mean anything. he gets the job done and thats all we care about. and is always here when we need him. save your accolades and fancy languages.
any business owner feels the same way. show me you can do the job not how much fluff you can blow at me.
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If the guy works for someone else and gets paid $100k, then you're being charged more than what he makes or the company isn't making a profit from his work.
I never said anything about a master skill... it's a skill to code in php - but not a skill that's worth $100k a year. And yes, you can find plenty of extremely skilled, very dedicated, amazing coders for far, far, far less money.
The reason a php coder isn't worth a $100k a year is because they're a dime a dozen. You can hire young teenagers that are masters in php. Most php coders started as kids learning it, if they didn't you shouldn't hire them, it's one of the first languages they learn - because it's so simple.
I used to think coders were worth that as well until I found better coders at half the cost.