Comments on: Observation : Rails Consulting Rates Lower Than .NET Rates http://accidentaltechnologist.com/technology/observation-rails-consulting-rates-lower-than-net-rates/ Musings about Technology, Software Design and Development Wed, 16 May 2012 17:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Sean Schofield http://accidentaltechnologist.com/technology/observation-rails-consulting-rates-lower-than-net-rates/#comment-677 Sean Schofield Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:23:02 +0000 http://localhost/~rbazinet/?p=315#comment-677 <p>When I was on the job market about 10 months ago I definitely noticed a difference in salary for RoR vs. Java. I mentioned this at a couple of RoR conferences and people thought I was crazy.</p> <p>In my experience its true though. RoR just pays less - but you can't put a price on happiness. My guess is this is due to low demand and the fact that in the Washington, D.C. area most jobs are government related contracting (and they're slow to adopt Rails.)</p> When I was on the job market about 10 months ago I definitely noticed a difference in salary for RoR vs. Java. I mentioned this at a couple of RoR conferences and people thought I was crazy.

In my experience its true though. RoR just pays less – but you can’t put a price on happiness. My guess is this is due to low demand and the fact that in the Washington, D.C. area most jobs are government related contracting (and they’re slow to adopt Rails.)

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In my experience its true though. RoR just pays less – but you can’t put a price on happiness. My guess is this is due to low demand and the fact that in the Washington, D.C. area most jobs are government related contracting (and they’re slow to adopt Rails.)

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]]> By: Rob Bazinet http://accidentaltechnologist.com/technology/observation-rails-consulting-rates-lower-than-net-rates/#comment-676 Rob Bazinet Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:01:22 +0000 http://localhost/~rbazinet/?p=315#comment-676 <p>@Mike - Agreed. This is just an observation based on my findings in a very limited scope of time. I did do some searching around some ROR gig sites just to compare and found the rates offered lower than if I went to a .NET gig site with similar requirements for experience.</p> <p>I know the arguments for Rails is faster to market and does really matter for the rate does it? Or should the Rails rate be HIGHER than .NET rates because it is faster to market.</p> <p>All I can says is..I was surprised...and trying to figure out what this really means. I figured I could easily provide both types of development, Rails and .NET with interchangeable rates but it looks like that is not the case, at least in my limited experience with finding both types of gigs.</p> @Mike – Agreed. This is just an observation based on my findings in a very limited scope of time. I did do some searching around some ROR gig sites just to compare and found the rates offered lower than if I went to a .NET gig site with similar requirements for experience.

I know the arguments for Rails is faster to market and does really matter for the rate does it? Or should the Rails rate be HIGHER than .NET rates because it is faster to market.

All I can says is..I was surprised…and trying to figure out what this really means. I figured I could easily provide both types of development, Rails and .NET with interchangeable rates but it looks like that is not the case, at least in my limited experience with finding both types of gigs.

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