I don't know if this post will be allowed or not, I hope it is.

I need a top programmer to temporarily come to work for me. Depending on your skills and abilities, I am willing to pay $25 upwards to $50 per hour for up to 16 hours a day on 7 days. Being in the Houston area would be a HUGE plus for you since that will be the first thing I want. If I can find no-one in the Houston area, I will then look at others.

Requirements.
Must know Extremely well:
1. Apache 1.3.12 using SuEXEC
2. Linux Kernal 2.2
3. Perl
4. Javascript
5. Must be able to devote full attention and time to this project. With full attention to the project, you could have it done in 3 days max. It's really not much if you are extremely knowledgable in the first 4 requirements.

You can read http://stormwebs.com for more information on the subject.

Would of been ok if it was in the advertising forum ;p.

I don't know any top programmers who work for just $50/hr, especially on a contract basis. Someone who is really good and has free time maybe.

Houston isn't somewhere in the Third World, is it?

This is perl and javascript programming.....quite a common profession. I checked with a number of IT companies and those figures are the normal start pay for good programmers. Sometimes start can go as high as $70/hour.

Basically I have set aside $5,000 for this little bit of programming, and it's not that difficult.

Houston Texas....how many Houston's are there? LOL

Yeah that's true, I'm stuck in C++ land on prices.

Originally posted by Webdude
This is perl and javascript programming.....quite a common profession. I checked with a number of IT companies and those figures are the normal start pay for good programmers. Sometimes start can go as high as $70/hour.Here's why the experienced programmers in the crowd are reacting with bemusement: you're asking for a "top programmer," and starting your range at $25/hour. Simply, that's a beginner, not a "top programmer. "

And you're comparing the pay you are offering to starting pay. But yours is a short-term project; people typically take a lower-than-desired starting pay with a given company with the long view that there'll be increases over that. Further, you're comparing wage pay to the contract pay you're offering. Really you have to add at least a 30%, probably 50%, premium before you can start to compare the two. If you want to compete with that $70/hour starting pay, you'd have to be offering over $100!
Basically I have set aside $5,000 for this little bit of programming, and it's not that difficult.If it were me, I'd then just offer $5000 to do the project by whatever the target date is. Actually, if you put it that way it isn't unattractive.

Except for that part about Houston! :)

Your right, I should have put it in those words. However, there are also a lot of programmers doing their own thing trying to make a living without actually being employed by someone else. They often contract out their skills, which they can be just as good as $200/hour programmer. They tend to do a better job also so as to build repeat business at a higher rates. Once you earn my trust and confidence, I would use you again in the future and be willing to pay more. 4 now, the highest I would go is $50/hour topped out at $5000 for this little project. But if I say $5000 for the project, the sooner you got it done, the more per hour you would make, right?

Originally posted by Webdude
4 now, the highest I would go is $50/hour topped out at $5000 for this little project. But if I say $5000 for the project, the sooner you got it done, the more per hour you would make, right? Exactly! And that's why it sounds more attractive, especially to someone who is confident in their ability to get the thing done quickly without getting bogged down for hours -- the kind of person you want. And after all, from your point of view it doesn't matter how many hours of actual work it takes them; what's important is that they get it done on schedule. So pay what that's worth.

Another part of how I see it: I have a number of programmers, web designers, flash artists, and the like as contract employees. I pay them all on a project basis. A factor in that is that I don't want to be in the position of having to verify how many hours people are working, checking time sheets, etc. And like I said, I don't really care. Just get it done on time and I'll pay what it's worth to me to have it done.

Anyway, I'm just killing time making conversation. Good luck, I hope you find the help you need.

$5000 for the whole project sounds more attractive. But why not open the boundaries and let anyone compete. Its not really difficult to communicate the system requirements through e-mail and other means of communication.

And in addition, if you're paying by per project basis, then you need not keep track of time and it wouldn't matter if he was working out of his house somewhere across the other side of the world!

Is Houston on the Internet yet?

etLux .. sure it is .. http://www.cowboyonline.com/

"One final requirement, you must be at least 18 years of age if you are a resident within the United States. A copy of a legal State ID and SS Card will be needed in that case. Within the United States, you must be at least 18 to be legally binded to a contract that runs across state borders."

This is kinda a problem, considering a lot of internet programmers who would be up for this type of job are under 18..

Yeah I know, but considering the funds are coming out of the corporate pockets and not mine, I am required by the B.O.D. to abide by the law. I actually got a lot of emails on it, and I feel I got a great programmer. As I said to a few responses, I know people who are only 13 and doing great programming in C++. Unfortunatly, if I were to use them I would have to pay out of my own pocket and it be under the table.

So Chicken or BC (whats that stand for? Before Christ?) or whomever can close or remove this thread since it's no longer needed.

Webdude :stickout No, not Before Christ, they're initials for my real name. ;) (I used to be a reg at FreeWebSpace)

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