Ideally what is your time worth?

I would like to think that I’m worth more than minimum wage, but I am clueless in what my skills would be worth and what skills have are marketable?

When I left my last job, I was making $36.25 as an hourly worker but that was as a professional with a Master’s degree.

I earn a salary which works out to $45/hr. I took nearly a $30k/yr pay cut a year and a half ago to take a job that was far less stressful and had some job security.

I’m currently making average salary for my job/experience. I don’t know how people even attempt to make it on minimum wage. Modest proposals of $15/hr minimum are also insufficient, yet get pushback.

I work with computers so those questions all strike me as different rather than honing in on one right answer.

That is, I think even experienced senior software developers like me shouldn’t be paid so much more than other types of workers.

I think the job market is not something I’d describe as “honest”, and certainly not when looking at what the most a person like me could make is. It ranges from $50,000 to $200,000 according to web sites, though I know some folks who make considerably more, and who got that through being overconfident and acting like they thought they were worth $300,000, even though they’re not particularly brilliant or learned (nor honest), and couldn’t do more technical jobs.

I make around 30k per yr with few expenses and no kids in a low cost area. I make a fair wage for my fun job in media. I’m a homeowner with IRA and 401k, with a partially disabled husband.

Technically my income is around the poverty line. It’s hard for me to think of myself as being in poverty though. I have a clean, dry and solid house to live in, a good automobile, good clothing, ample food, computers, internet, and plenty of entertainments to distract myself with. Not sure how that’s poverty. However I am also able to live fairly cheaply and do not have children or anyone dependant on me. So there’s that…

On the side I am a hobbyist photographer and offer a few prints of my work for sale. Evidently my skills in this department are worth zero, since no one’s buying.

@Darth All I heard was online art show haha! Please?

¿Que?

@Darth Post online so we can see them!

Oh, right, of course. Eh, what the hell, I’ve been here long enough I suppose I can reveal myself a bit….

Here’s my Flickr page: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffrankin/

And here is the page for my prints: https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/jeff-rankin.html

And, just for the fine, friendly folks here on Fluthrer – entering the code TCHVSS at checkout will get you a $10 discount (a little shameless self-promotion).

@Darth_Algar Nice pics! You’re a person, not a bot!

Worth to whom?

I spend an hour or two each night reading books. That is highly valuable time for me – I wouldn’t give it up for any price.

But those same two hours of mine are worthless to you.

So – when you ask about “what is my time worth?” – I have to ask – to who?

@elbanditoroso To whomever pays the most.

@Darth_Algar I envisioned you as an older man.

$99 trillion a nanosecond.

@Darth_Algar – Great photos.

pretty frikken little evidently

I charge $30 per hour.

Depends on which hole…

I’m a field engineer, I’m willing to whore my skills out at about 45–50 bucks an hour which is just below the going rate. I changed specialites a couple years ago so I’m not worth what I was previously as I’m still in the learning phase but I’m not as stressed out I was almost at the point before this move where I could ask for a blank check but what good is that when you can’t sleep at night.
I could make alot more in management but frankly I’m comfortable and it’s just not worth it. There is a certain amount of free time I enjoy that is not for sale outside of dire emergency.

@janbb @thisismyusername

Thanks!

@chyna

Turned 40 last year.

^They are really nice!!

You mean what they pay me, or what you think I should be paid?
For what we drivers have to put up with idiot drivers, dispatchers that are from hell, D.O.T and so forth we should get at least $35 an hour but right now just a bit over $25.

The standard professional wage I charge for most work, is £10/Hr, but I am constantly told I’m not being paid enough. In theory, if I worked as a php guy more often, the standard rate is £40/Hr, but a lot of companies respond to that by throttling the number of chargeable hours you can work for them, which I think is quite amusing.

My overheads are currently extremely low, so I get to keep more of my earnings than usual. I currently make £200 pcm, but that only takes me about 4 hours’ a month, so effectively I suppose I’m on £50/Hr. That isn’t easily extendible, unfortunately, due to a shortage of good clients, so I won’t earn more simply by putting in more hours.

When the big investment stuff happens, I really don’t know what wage I can claim. It’s be nice if I could get a lump sum followed by a modest income, as I have a small mountain of personal capital living costs to clamber over before I’m on a home run.