I keep getting calls from contracting companies and they keep offering the same amount - $50 per hour. My previous job was like $90 per hour. Is $50 per hour just the normal for remote software development jobs?
You have more competition, but if you are the shit, show it. I'm the shit. I dont work hourly. My from-home-zero-office "remote first" job is 100k.
They dont replace me with AI, they have me make the AI work (for select, distinct purposes). They're not getting rid of coders, they are using us to push the customer away.
I also know how to do a few things most people dont know how to do, like I'm really good with geospatial stuff and statistical predictions. You couldn't get an AI to write out my specialist applications, unless you already knew how.
$50 an hour isnt a bad thing. If you could have had $50/hour AND work from home 10 years ago, you wouldn't take it?
$50/hour and not leaving the house aint too shabby. Assuming you get a full 40.
Yes this is the whole point, and a lot of them live in a place where lower salaries are bigger pay to them, so remote listings both can offer less no problem and it can be harder to get them.
They dont replace me with AI
I know nothing about this AI talk to replace coders. This is a joke, you can't replace a coder with AI. This must just be bullshit yabber for companies to claim while they're mass laying off people or higher jeets in india but claiming all the new work is coming from "AI".
Google searches already was using AI. It's just the return response was a website not a body of text.
$50 an hour isn't a bad thing.
I'm surprised you think $50 / hr isn't a bad thing. This amount literally can't pay all my household bills. It's certainly good / ok, but literally if I have to hire a renovator to come in and do something, I pay them more for fucking hour than I make. That's fucked up. And they do a job fit for a back bathroom in a shit out of the middle of no where gas station or mechanic shop.
However the cost to move when the combined cost of selling / buying a home with mortgage, sales, and realtor fees being like 15% of the home cost is like $150 thousand if you are buying a nice $1 million dollar home. Which is often modest or even shitty or small in many nice areas! $150 THOUSAND! Just to move! And it's being done over just a job! Which could fire you in just a year or two anyways! So move costs now factor in to pay worthwhileness and move costs are f'ing exorbitant! Constitutional violation levels imo!
I'm ok $50 if that that's what it just economically settles to and is actually the norm. I'm just wondering if it really is the norm or not for remote.
Working from home means the company has much more people to choose from contasted with people who are strictly in that city. So, you have more competition. Which means you are worth less.
Ya I'm just wondering if it's the norm so I can plan accordingly. Definitely all the economics of it make enough potential sense.
I've seen jobs in po dunky FL locations that are offering like $180k base salary with benefits which I guess would be the equiv of $110/hr? and they'd be complete shoe in software dev jobs for a seasoned developer. I'm just shocked by their "confidence" offering $50/hr for remote as if it's mainline / hardline norm when software jobs in even the most podunkiest places in the US are going to plainly offer at least 50% more for walk in jobs, and most offer 100%-200% more easy.
AI sometimes produces API usage examples vaguely well, but it can't write a coherent program, basically it's a pajeet but with English capability.
The most recent thing I tried to make it write was a C++ class with a template function and a separate source which instantiates it for a couple of specific types. It first tried to make a template class instead (wrong approach for what I wanted), then it insisted the class header needs those type declarations (it doesn't, they can be confined to a separate unit and the linker sorts it out).
AIs can tell you any equation you need, but it can't actually use them to calculate anything coherent.
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I'm the shit. I dont work hourly. My from-home-zero-office "remote first" job is 100k.
They dont replace me with AI, they have me make the AI work (for select, distinct purposes).
They're not getting rid of coders, they are using us to push the customer away.
I also know how to do a few things most people dont know how to do, like I'm really good with geospatial stuff and statistical predictions. You couldn't get an AI to write out my specialist applications, unless you already knew how.
$50 an hour isnt a bad thing.
If you could have had $50/hour AND work from home 10 years ago, you wouldn't take it?
$50/hour and not leaving the house aint too shabby. Assuming you get a full 40.
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[ - ] CoronaHoax [op] 0 points 2 monthsFeb 22, 2025 10:06:48 ago (+0/-0)
Yes this is the whole point, and a lot of them live in a place where lower salaries are bigger pay to them, so remote listings both can offer less no problem and it can be harder to get them.
I know nothing about this AI talk to replace coders. This is a joke, you can't replace a coder with AI. This must just be bullshit yabber for companies to claim while they're mass laying off people or higher jeets in india but claiming all the new work is coming from "AI".
Google searches already was using AI. It's just the return response was a website not a body of text.
I'm surprised you think $50 / hr isn't a bad thing. This amount literally can't pay all my household bills. It's certainly good / ok, but literally if I have to hire a renovator to come in and do something, I pay them more for fucking hour than I make. That's fucked up. And they do a job fit for a back bathroom in a shit out of the middle of no where gas station or mechanic shop.
However the cost to move when the combined cost of selling / buying a home with mortgage, sales, and realtor fees being like 15% of the home cost is like $150 thousand if you are buying a nice $1 million dollar home. Which is often modest or even shitty or small in many nice areas! $150 THOUSAND! Just to move! And it's being done over just a job! Which could fire you in just a year or two anyways! So move costs now factor in to pay worthwhileness and move costs are f'ing exorbitant! Constitutional violation levels imo!
I'm ok $50 if that that's what it just economically settles to and is actually the norm. I'm just wondering if it really is the norm or not for remote.
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[ - ] puremadness 0 points 2 monthsFeb 23, 2025 01:15:44 ago (+0/-0)
You're talking about a million dollar home.
I'm shopping for 200k in bad neighborhoods.
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So, you have more competition.
Which means you are worth less.
If you don't take $50/hr, someone else will.
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I've seen jobs in po dunky FL locations that are offering like $180k base salary with benefits which I guess would be the equiv of $110/hr? and they'd be complete shoe in software dev jobs for a seasoned developer. I'm just shocked by their "confidence" offering $50/hr for remote as if it's mainline / hardline norm when software jobs in even the most podunkiest places in the US are going to plainly offer at least 50% more for walk in jobs, and most offer 100%-200% more easy.
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The most recent thing I tried to make it write was a C++ class with a template function and a separate source which instantiates it for a couple of specific types. It first tried to make a template class instead (wrong approach for what I wanted), then it insisted the class header needs those type declarations (it doesn't, they can be confined to a separate unit and the linker sorts it out).
AIs can tell you any equation you need, but it can't actually use them to calculate anything coherent.