What would the salary range be for programmers (LAMP platform), to be hired by a S.F. startup?<p>What amount of equity (if any) would be included in the job offer?<p>Other than salary.com, what websites have this sort of information?
For the very earliest employees in a startup, you should pay little more than living expenses in salary, because you only want people who want mostly equity. How much equity to give them is always a negotiation. <p>The underlying principles are described here: <a href="http://paulgraham.com/equity.html" rel="nofollow">http://paulgraham.com/equity.html</a><p>
80,000 to 120,000 depending on experience.<p>Anything less, and you are getting screwed. Anything more, and you are actually good either technically. or at negotiation.<p>Don't sell yourself for little thou. You have all the power of negotiation BEFORE joining the company. After that, it will be very hard to get any big raises.<p>The other thing, is to consider equity. Are you joining as just an employee of as a early starter employee that will creat their technology backbone.
In the Midwest in dollars per hour,
newbs bill for 30-35 per hour.
junior programers 35-55
senior 50-80
niche jr 50-85
niche sr 85-150
enterprise niche 100-250
Wow those numbers are bizarre compared to what I see in Belgium. Programmer jobs don't make much more than average other jobs here actually.<p>Junior programmers get paid around 25000 EUR per year (before taxes) - that equates to 35000 USD.
Need a little more information. Is this a startup without any programmers who is looking for an integrated team member? Or is there already a lot of technical people on staff and you're just looking to offload some of the work?<p>
It makes a big difference.
1) Whatever you feel you're worth.<p>2) Whatever you feel you're worth.<p>The limiting factor in your compensation is usually your own reluctance to ask for "way too much".<p>