Fair Salary For Junior Web Developer (PHP)

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I'm thinking of extending my part time business by getting a junior developer on board. Maybe someone just out of varsity of someone with a bit of experience - basically a junior web developer with PHP skills.

What would a fair salary for someone like this do you think? It's been many years since I was a junior myself so I'm not sure what exactly would be a good CTC to offer.
 
I wouldn't hire someone fresh out of university unless you had someone more experienced to mentor them, but if you did, you would be looking at R15k to R25k, depending on the caliber of the candidate.
 
Fresh out of uni php dev? R7-8k maybe, until he proves himself.

...and that is why I don't get to hire people.
 
R15k-R25k?!?!? are you bonkers..

its a junior web dev....

R10k pm CTC at the most...
 
I got R22k straight out of university 7 years ago. In the UK, but still. Candidate attorneys get something like R15k.

Without a university degree, R10k. With a university degree, R15k. With a good university degree and shows a lot of initiative and talent, R25k. As in, contributes to open source projects in his spare time. Easy R25k - if you don't snatch him up for R25k, someone else will.
 
8-12k for a junior. The world is not short on developer positions so even that might be a bit low.
 
look for someone that can show you work / experiments / code outside the scope of their varsity projects, then offer them slightly more than ~R12k CTC, then pile the work on them and see if they swim.
 
I would hire them as an outside contractor to prove themselves first. sometimes you get the type who can talk the walk but can't walk the walk. then you are stuck with someone you can't fire that easily.
 
Ancalagon said:
I got R22k straight out of university 7 years ago. In the UK, but still. Candidate attorneys get something like R15k.

Without a university degree, R10k. With a university degree, R15k. With a good university degree and shows a lot of initiative and talent, R25k. As in, contributes to open source projects in his spare time. Easy R25k - if you don't snatch him up for R25k, someone else will.
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Are we talking 0 work xp or a couple of years work xp and only finishing his degree now?
 
Hamster said:
I ... I think you are smoking something. But then I could be wrong and companies are even more desperate than I thought.
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I know people who worked for IBM and got R13.5k starting salary fresh out of varsity no work experience. AND they were not even developers. Grad program. This was in 2010.

I got R22k fresh out of varsity no work experience in the UK - in 2007! 22000 pounds per year was my starting salary.

I don't know anybody with a university degree that got less than R13k fresh out of varsity with a degree as long as they got a degree in a good field.

Everyone hears about how poorly candidate attorneys are paid, and even they get about R15k.

What makes you think a software developer with a BSc is not worth R15k? R15k is peanuts!
 
Ancalagon said:
I know people who worked for IBM and got R13.5k starting salary fresh out of varsity no work experience. AND they were not even developers. Grad program. This was in 2010.

I got R22k fresh out of varsity no work experience in the UK - in 2007! 22000 pounds per year was my starting salary.

I don't know anybody with a university degree that got less than R13k fresh out of varsity with a degree as long as they got a degree in a good field.

Everyone hears about how poorly candidate attorneys are paid, and even they get about R15k.

What makes you think a software developer with a BSc is not worth R15k? R15k is peanuts!
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Because software developers with no experience only start showing value after a couple of months/a year.

But hey, anything is possible.
 
Hamster said:
I ... I think you are smoking something. But then I could be wrong and companies are even more desperate than I thought.
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You sound like someone that will drive aspiring developers away from a company.
 
Ancalagon said:
I know people who worked for IBM and got R13.5k starting salary fresh out of varsity no work experience. AND they were not even developers. Grad program. This was in 2010.

I got R22k fresh out of varsity no work experience in the UK - in 2007! 22000 pounds per year was my starting salary.

I don't know anybody with a university degree that got less than R13k fresh out of varsity with a degree as long as they got a degree in a good field.

Everyone hears about how poorly candidate attorneys are paid, and even they get about R15k.

What makes you think a software developer with a BSc is not worth R15k? R15k is peanuts!
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I have run into senior devs asking more than 50K and most of my junior interns can run circles around them. I would pay the person based on skill. Our interns get 7,5K (and after 12 months they will have full Java or Redhat certification at mid-level salaries).
 
^^vampire^^ said:
I'm thinking of extending my part time business by getting a junior developer on board. Maybe someone just out of varsity of someone with a bit of experience - basically a junior web developer with PHP skills.

What would a fair salary for someone like this do you think? It's been many years since I was a junior myself so I'm not sure what exactly would be a good CTC to offer.
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"Basically a junior web dev with php skills".... you don't need an "out of varsity" one for that.
I wouldn't pay 15-25 CTC for that in any event.
 
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