I totally agree - a good freelance engineer would cost more than $2000, most likely close to $2500-$3000.
1) when software engineer works in a company (I am talking about Ukraine/Russia) the company pays all his taxes and such value of $1000 is paid in cash AFTER all taxes are paid. Tax value is about 40%-45% from salary
2) Any officially employed person is getting 4 weeks of paid vacation every year by law. Freelance guy could spend alot of time for search of new projects.
3) An IT engineer getting alot of benefits in office: good work place, Internet, server infrustructure, helf of friends, free add-on such as breakfast, tea/coffee, kitchen, massage chair, free gym, etc, etc. IT sectors offers many-many addons which actually cost money.
4) If you are not officially employeed you have to open small business and pay taxes yourself. If you don't pay taxes you would become old and poor. Also unemployeed would have problems getting VISA if you want to visit USA, Europe or other overseas country.
To summarize: A good guy would prefer to work in a company for $1000-$1500 rather than working on freelance basis for $1500-$2000.
And to list benefits working with a company:
1) you are working with a company and if person leaves someone would take care of your project. This is really important for long term business (any projects by default is long term until it fails)
2) in a company you could have different engineers: server side developer, UI engineer, Flash programmer, Java developer, Mobile/iOS/Android eveloper, web designer, SEO specialist, etc, etc. It is not possible to get everything from a single person on a professional level.
3) Wide hardware access for debug/testing purposes: Mac, Windows, Linux desktop computers as well as mobile devices. We have about 30 mobile devices in office for tests and about 25 computers.
4) Team works better - they can talk to each other, share experience and you have a manager who control how the work is done, when engineer stats the work and finish it.
5) You can minimize your taxes by paying a company instead of individual
And for $500 you can easily find WP plugins/themes manager and could call him as a cheap programmer.
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Originally Posted by klinton
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