I imagine working remotely is a very competitive because there are proportionally fewer jobs than jobseekers and many jobseekers live in low cost areas (Montevideo and Manila vs Manhattan for example).<p>How have supply and demand equilibrated?<p>Remote developers, what are you paid? Managers, what do you pay remote software developers?
I don't mean this to sound snarky but remote developers are paid whatever they can negotiate.<p>If a company wants remote workers for "off shoring reasons", then pay will be low. If they want remote workers that are perfect for their needs, they'll pay what they think is fair and within their budget.
No, supply and demand have not balanced out.<p>From what I've heard here in South America, a common salary goes from 25 - 50 US$/hr for experienced remote freelance developers. That works out to a pretty decent salary that's above local market rates.<p>The keys are:
- good English
- experienced developers
- above local market rates (but usually below market rates where the client lives)<p>I expect this market to continue to evolve and expand, there's really no reason for it not to.
I think you'll find that remote developers' salaries vary as much as any other worker. I work remotely for a company based in NYC. My employer based their initial offer on the average salary for software developers in the city that I lived in at the time. I countered for much higher ($135k) and got it. Now I live in San Diego, which has one of the highest costs of living, but I feel the tradeoff is worth it.<p>This company also hires lots of developers from around the world, in places with much lower cost of living and I suspect their salaries balance out, so to speak, with mine and the local NYC employees.
I make Content Management Systems for small medium businesses with optional eCommerce integration mostly LAMP stack, 3 person team(PHP & Android dev, a Designer), earning $60/hr. Location: Kathmandu. Have been bootstrapping my company with these occasional contract works for last 3 years.
I've never worked remote but interviewed for a bunch. I had some places come out and say since you work remote we will pay you less then is average for your area since you don't have to commute and some offer the going rate.
I charge £15/hr to £20/hr. Working as PHP / JQuery / Bootstrap / HTML5 / API etc., I source work from PPH mostly (90%)<p>I live in India & Happy to be here considering the cost of living.
20-25$/hr working as PHP developer.
Started with NodeJs few months ago and charge 30USD/hr<p>I am form India. Most of my clients are via oDesk.
I recently asked for $30/hr.<p>I'm based in Italy.<p>I plan to somewhat raise the rate if the work is enough to allow me to open a "partita IVA".