How many hours per week does a PHP or web programming contract job have on average?
March 30th, 2010 | 
Author: I see contract jobs for PHP and MySQL programming for 6 months, for like $50/hr. Now if this was for 40 hours a week…. holy crap, that’s a lot of money. But Is it just a gimick, where they really offer only 15 or so? Or are there some weeks of even no work at all?
It’s unlikely that it’s 40 hours per week. Sometimes it could be 40 hours in 3 days, though. You’ve got to remember that when you’re doing contract work, there’s also time you have to allow for sales – for getting customers. Then there are fixed price jobs where you quote on a project for a certain amount of money – and they take you up on it. But they ask for a few small changes – now that should be extra – but they’re a good customer, you want to keep them happy – so you do that for free.
Also to be working 40 hours a week, you need to line up one job after another. Often customers don’t like waiting. If they’re 4th in line, that might mean a deliverable in 10 weeks, which they won’t accept.
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it’s no joke my friend…it’s computer programming, you act like this is fun or something? it’s boring, hard, long hours. I’ve been in this field since the mid 80′s working for large companies such as AT&T for over a decade. The money is their, I was making around $200 h/r the most towards the end of my career but I did not enjoy my job even though the money was good. If I were you I would do something like game design or something
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It’s unlikely that it’s 40 hours per week. Sometimes it could be 40 hours in 3 days, though. You’ve got to remember that when you’re doing contract work, there’s also time you have to allow for sales – for getting customers. Then there are fixed price jobs where you quote on a project for a certain amount of money – and they take you up on it. But they ask for a few small changes – now that should be extra – but they’re a good customer, you want to keep them happy – so you do that for free.
Also to be working 40 hours a week, you need to line up one job after another. Often customers don’t like waiting. If they’re 4th in line, that might mean a deliverable in 10 weeks, which they won’t accept.
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