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Originally Posted by TheDoc
As I stated above.... Programmers in multiple languages earn more, php coders don't. You're not a php coder, you're a programmer that can program in multiple languages. It's expected you earn more - it's not expected that a php coder earns as much as you do.
Over the years I've hired 20+ various types of full-time in house programmers, from extremely skilled to entry level, from creating web applications, our own web servers, billing solutions, our own affiliate programs, to stupid stuff.
Today I deal with nothing but outsource coders from all over the world, many of which post on this forum. If I hired one of them full time, 40 hours a week at the 'average industry rates' I wouldn't pay more than $40k for a full time php coder.
They aren't worth it because the market says they aren't worth it.
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I wouldn't hire a six figure guy to maintain a NATS installation either, LOL...
The reason why you don't see too many six figure PHP devs in the adult industry is because nobody is doing anything to warrant it... This industry lacks innovation and, in my opinion, is way behind the game. The vast majority of sponsor sites are still nothing more than glorified galleries, almost no one captures user info unless it's a paid signup, A/B testing is practically unheard of, and the amount of sites
not built on some prepackaged solution is very slim...
Edit: And further more on that last part... Do people not realize in the adult industry that if you use a prepackaged solution that isn't open source your offerings and functionality are limited only to what (and at what speed) your third party solution is capable of providing? And that you can never offer more (or different functionality) than your competition? Do people just play this game to make enough money to get by? Cause where I come from, we play to win...
Third party solutions are for startups, to minimize costs... once you get to a certain point you should be looking at developing custom software if you plan on taking on some market share rather than just sharing in the market...