Re: [Skunkworks] Is there anyone who knows how much Software, developers should earn per man-hour in Kenya?
Never heard of anyone getting paid per line of code. Wouldn't make a lot of sense since the best developers usually write much less code to do the same thing than a novice developer by leveraging code reuse and good designs. I worked with a guy who's net effect on the roughly one million lines of code for our system was actually negative. He did a lot refactoring and architectural improvements and ending up removing 10 times the amount of code that he added. I guess if we had paid him per line of code he would have ended up owing us money. Payscale.com has some data on salaries for developers in Kenya but there are not a lot of data points. Would be nice to see some more substantial publicly available data. In my experience, developer salaries here are all over the place, even for people with the same skills and experience, and this is due in part to the fact that there isn't enough visibility in the market. Josh On 18/05/12 8:20 AM, skunkworks-request@lists.my.co.ke wrote:
Message: 1 Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 00:52:00 +0300 From: Jac<jack.gathoni@gmail.com> To: Skunkworks Mailing List<skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Subject: [Skunkworks] Is there anyone who knows how much Software developers should earn per man-hour in Kenya? Message-ID: <CAGmUtcTJjdiDt0CTMxgK9WqojsU0zQAh=38Un11=aquX9tBP-g@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Hi Skunkers
Is there anyone who knows how much Software developers should earn per man-hour in Kenya? Is there a standard rate also per line of code?
I will appreciate your response on this.
Best
I think everyone needs to take their time and use payscale.com since it can be a very good resource for everyone. ./Ok3ch On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Josh Handley <josh@bridgeinternationalacademies.com> wrote:
Never heard of anyone getting paid per line of code. Wouldn't make a lot of sense since the best developers usually write much less code to do the same thing than a novice developer by leveraging code reuse and good designs. I worked with a guy who's net effect on the roughly one million lines of code for our system was actually negative. He did a lot refactoring and architectural improvements and ending up removing 10 times the amount of code that he added. I guess if we had paid him per line of code he would have ended up owing us money.
Payscale.com has some data on salaries for developers in Kenya but there are not a lot of data points. Would be nice to see some more substantial publicly available data. In my experience, developer salaries here are all over the place, even for people with the same skills and experience, and this is due in part to the fact that there isn't enough visibility in the market.
Josh
On 18/05/12 8:20 AM, skunkworks-request@lists.my.co.ke wrote:
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Hi Skunkers
Is there anyone who knows how much Software developers should earn per man-hour in Kenya? Is there a standard rate also per line of code?
I will appreciate your response on this.
Best
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