[Info-vax] Contract Opportunity: VMS Developer

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2019-04-21 kl. 14:51, skrev seasoned_geek:
> On Saturday, April 6, 2019 at 2:22:38 PM UTC-5, Phillip Helbig (undress
> to reply) wrote:
>> In article <q8apf9$hs9$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble 
>> <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>> 
>>> I sent an email to the guy.  Up front I mentioned the last time I
>>> quoted a rate it was $150/hr.  I've seen more, and less, but thought
>>> I'd throw that against the wall and see if it would stick.
>>> 
>>> Never heard back.  No reply.
>>> 
>>> Perhaps they'd pay minimum wage ????
>> 
>> There is a lot of room between minimum wage and $150/hr.  With a 
>> forty-hour work week, that 24,000 per month.  Even allowing for the
>> fact that that is gross pay, that as a freelancer one isn't
>> permanently employed, that one has to pay all insurance etc oneself,
>> that is still a very good salary.  Half of that would still be
>> reasonable, and still a long way from minimum wage.
> 
> Half of that would be dramatically below market rate. Yeah, there are
> some major corporations, including a former client of mine, who only
> import terrorists now, but there are real companies who know how rare
> high quality VMS talent is...

Which just continues to push sites away from VMS.

> They've been paying rates well above $150 for years.

If the other OS'es runs for half of that, then that is yet another
factor that drives sits away from VMS.