It used to be US$26/hour. For context, I live in Malaysia, and it's enough to make a comfortable living on 20 hours/week. It's the mid-upper range for local (SEA) market rates, low globally, so the money was mostly coming in from Australians. But I find that even posting such rates will get me attacked by other contractors for being both too high and too low.

Android & basic (jQuery+MEAN) web dev, 8 years of experience.

I would charge more.

Or more specifically, I would recommend charging weekly or monthly (up front, ideally), depending on the nature of the project. And each larger chunk of time they reserve, the greater the discount. So your monthly rate would be cheaper than your weekly rate, and both should be much cheaper than your hourly rate.

But, even if you continue charging hourly, you should charge progressively more until you meet sufficient market resistance. You determine your rate.

Personally, I only do small side projects (different language/platform) and I don't offer less than week billable periods, and my rate for that equates to $200/hour.

How do you find work?

Short answer: repeat business and word of mouth.

Slightly longer answer: I've done this for a while (a decade plus) and suffered through my own periods of undercharging and making just about every mistake in the book, business wise. However, I always did decent work and was reliable. That's what matters most. Over time, I corrected my under billing using the technique described in my answer above.

$120 / hr for full-stack web application developer.

I do React/Node primarily (Typescript on both front/back end). I used to build out websites, but these days it's a ripoff to charge anyone a meaningful rate for a website unless you're doing something corporate or something that needs lots of functionality. Cookie-cutter sites just aren't worth my time / rates anymore, especially since a lot of my clients are friends and I don't want to charge them my full rate.

How do you find work?

Personal networking and connections, I've found that LinkedIn is the best way to seek out and make those connections. Decide who your target customer is, search for them by industry or needed specialty, and then reach out and introduce yourself and how you can help. Do this a few hundred times and you'll find something.

Edited to add I'm not the OP

Various methods. I used StackOverflow Jobs once (RIP), I’ve used hired.com, and then I’ve also used dice.com.

Dice.com has put probably 10+ jobs in front of me in under a week.

So, I'm in networking, but we typically charge the equivalent of $100-120 per hour for labor. We generally don't make any money on materials unless it's something we bought before a price hike.

I don't generally get too much resistance to this even with direct consumers. They do get sticker shock though. Easier to sell a series of small projects than to hit someone with a total network rebuild.

I retired a several years ago (2018). I'm 60 (2022) now.

I was getting $150/hour. I charged by the hour.

I live in Nashua, NH. I think ___location really effects what you can charge.

Over the 4+ years I worked as contractor, among things I worked on:

- Radar displays/GUI (solo, in person, job shop).

- Laser scanning (solo).

- Medical scanning/GUI - the computer vision part (solo)

- Computer vision for protecting operators (solo, job shop).

To get work, I talked to former employers (direct) and sometimes the indirect kind (through a job shop).

Oops! I meant 15 years.

$150/hr for engineering management, as well as software/infra/security stuff. I used to live in SV, now I live in South America.

I often make it a sliding scale as well. If a client has only a few hours here and there for me I charge more. If they have a longer length project and can guarantee a certain number of hours a week, for a certain length, with a retainer or deposit then I'll be willing to charge less.

£80-95/h Salesforce consulting ( config, development,etc).

Higher rates are almost mandatory to avoid cheap clients looking for the next big discount and questioning every penny on the invoice.

~100€/h and I only do 6-18 month long contracts.

I would like to know more on this, from where to take remote jobs. MY rate is 20$/hr (full stack .net developer)

I don't have the answer but out of curiosity what's your background and experience?

embedded dev, 50p/h, if you are unhappy with your rates shoot me over your contracts!:)