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mars on Sept 29, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Germans have higher productivity and longer va...

i'm partner at an interactive agency in germany and i was wondering how much development work in the u.s. costs. we are billing our customers 80-100eur per hour (109-136usd). experienced freelancers (frontend/backend devs) bill between 35 and 60 eur per hour (47-81 usd). is that comparable to the states?

jdminhbg on Sept 30, 2010 [–]

Experienced Rails devs in the US generally bill $100+/hr; similar for .NET contractors. I don't have a ton of pricing experience with anything else.

mars on Sept 30, 2010 | [–]

are you talking about companies or freelancers?

jdminhbg on Sept 30, 2010 | | [–]

Freelancers. Companies vastly more, or the same rates for inexperienced developers.

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