Hiring Web Developers

What to Expect

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Via Wikipedia: Modern web applications often contain three or more tiers, and depending on the size of the team a developer works on, the web developer may specialize in one or more of these tiers – or may take a more interdisciplinary role.

For example, in a two person team, one developer may focus on the technologies sent to the client such as HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and on the server-side frameworks (such as Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, ASP, .NET, .NET MVC) used to deliver content and scripts to the client.

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Meanwhile, the other developer might focus on the interaction between server-side frameworks, the web server, and a database system. Further, depending on the size of their organization, the aforementioned developers might work closely with a content creato/copy writer, marketing advisor, web designer, web producer, project manager, software architect, or database administrator – or they may be responsible for such tasks as web design and project management themselves.

What to Pay

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The web developer with an impressive portfolio of work should earn about $37.02 an hour¹.  That’s an hourly savings of $11.21 compared to the web developer who is hired as a full-time employee with benefits².

¹Based on estimates for this occupation (via O*Net.)
²Based on a total compensation cost of 30.3% (via EBRI.)

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