My dear JavaScript Dev friends is this a good day rate for a JS developer?

At £220 a day, I think I'll stick with VBA for now if that's the case.

Thats a good rate if the day is 3 hours long with 1 hour lunch break

Ha! Sign me up!!

220 a DAY??

@RazorSh4rk yep! Well £217.64 which sounds like the have just divided up what budget they wanted to spend over the 2/3 months.

Why is this considered a low pay? I'm not yet in programming bussiness, but this is a fucking lot of money per 1 day

@nikola1402 looks like you're a good fit then 👍

Mate i would kill for that pay lol

@RazorSh4rk do you want the email? It's from a mailshot I'll give you the details here:

Saadet Yalcin
Recruiting experts in Information Technology
T: 020 7259 8728
E: saadet.yalcin@hays.com

Wow thanks, i might actually contact them, i always wanted to move to london

@RazorSh4rk good luck 👍

That's mega low for London!! That's low for the Midlands, I'd say.

Source: I am a Web Dev contractor in the Midlands who gets sent Js roles by mistake all the time.

220£ a day is super low??

Damn, I really need to get a job, it looks like devs make a lot more money than I thought. (I'm in my last year of university right now).

@AnonymousGuy yeah thought it sounded low, especially for the stuff in the spec

@ocab19 @nikola1402 the thing with contracting is that the pay isn't guaranteed, so the risk is high. You might not find a contract after this for a month or two. And you don't get sick pay. Or holiday pay.

Personally I'd advise working somewhere for a salary for at least 5 years before looking into contracting to get a good base of experience.

Then you see £220 but there's a lot of extra stuff you have to go through. Like you probably have to pay Vat on that (20% of it gone) and if you work through your own company you have to pay corporation tax on everything you earn (20% off of whatever was left) and then you pay yourself from your business (because you're an employee) and then you get taxed on that like you do if you earn a salary.

Quick crash course in why it's not quite as amazing as it looks! Don't get all 🤑 emojified!

(I really enjoy it though, personally)

@AnonymousGuy wow, thanks for this elaborate explanation. But still with all that i would earn my current monthly salary in 2-3 days. All the more reasons to really dig in into some more programming lessons :) and yeah, i would always choose working for smaller but steadier income

@nikola1402 you're welcome ☺️ I went into contracting with not a lot of info and no friends who were contractors and I've had to learn by painful lessons so I love to share in the hope it helps.

P. S. If you decide you want to go into contracting get an accountant, a business bank account, and get the accountant to set up your payroll before you leave your permanent job because that process took me 4 months to get sorted and I couldn't pay myself in that time!

@AnonymousGuy thanks for that life pro tip :) i imagine it was hell...hopefully by the end of this year i will be able to start applying for jobs.

@nikola1402 good luck!

@AnonymousGuy thanks :)

For contracting that's low imo, you could get 150% of that over in Australia.

That said you'd want to know your stuff, generally these gigs are highly specialised.

That's London? Good luck to them getting that filled.

Last contractor I worked with was on ~£800/day (in Scotland). He wasn't a web dev though. And he was very good.

devrant is not for where I'm I suppose :(