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Codellyson
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Hi DevRanters!
I got this react gig earlier this year, its pay is $280/month ($70/week), its a relatively new startup yet to launch though. i was tasked with building landing page and dashboard for user and admin.
Since the company is about to launch, myself and the ceo had a talk concerning salary and he's proposing a salary lower than the one stated above.
Please for a relatively new startup how much do you think is ideal for salary?
What do I do if we couldn't reach an agreement?
Asking for a friend. Thanks.

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  • 4
    2y
    Umm, what the fuck
  • 11
    2y
    I get 300 € a day working in Eastern European country.

    The offer that was given to you is an insult. If they don’t have the money to pay, they don’t have investors, which is a big gamble for you.
  • 2
    2y
    @yehaaw thanks for your input. I thought so too. I accepted the former offer based on the circumstances surrounding me at that time, but now I just want to make it pays l but the founder's just not helping.
  • 2
    2y
    So they’re paying u basically $14 an hour
  • 5
    2y
    If you agree for a salary significantly lower than the market average, you're sending signals that you're weak and easy to lowball/use and ditch.

    Unless $70 is big money in your area, don't get any lower. Because you're already too low.

    That's my 2c
  • 1
    2y
    @netikras thanks 😊, I'd make sure I don't repeat same mistake again
  • 1
    2y
    if you did your job and did it relatively fast, start looking for another employer, this one is definitely either taking you for a fool, poor as fuck or both
  • 4
    2y
    @DeepHotel Best check the maths?
  • 1
    2y
    @netikras I agree, sure salaries in Sweden are probably higher in general but $280 per month is less than one third of what I got when I started working full time 30 years ago???
  • 1
    2y
    The median income in Nigeria (you wrote this in your profile) seems to be around 800€ (according to http://salaryexplorer.com/salary-su...). Therefore 280€ do seem to be very low.
  • 1
    2y
    If you need experience, sure.
    If you don't have better job, maybe.
    Otherwise nope.
  • 1
    2y
    @spongegeoff I could be retarded
  • 2
    2y
    @DeepHotel Nah, my guess is you're just relaxed. It's the weekend, after all.
  • 2
    2y
    How many hours per week?
  • 3
    2y
    @spongegeoff Actually it's $140/hr, he just works half an hour a week
  • 2
    2y
    @catgirldev he doesn't need to, it's just a startup
  • 2
    2y
    unless the dev is really passionate about the startup because they own it, what the fuck. a startup is still a company, they have to pay staff a living wage
  • 2
    2y
    I know understand why I was outsourced. $280 a month JFC
  • 1
    2y
    i get 260 euro (basically equal to 280 dollars) a month working temp job as an unskilled peon in a newspaper press 3 days a week, in a central/borderline eastern european country.

    where the fuck are you from? they're absolutely totally ripping you off, the absolute minimum i would begrudgingly accept for ANY dev job is like 700 or 800 euro. anything less is an absolute ripoff, and this minimum is borderline ripoff.
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