Salary for experienced PHP developers
Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 1:26 am
Hi,
First of all, Mod, if this is not the right forum for this then I apologize. Feel free to move it to a forum you consider more appropriate.
The company I work for is in the process of finalizing a business plan for a large project. As part of this project we are looking to hire 3-4 PHP experienced programmers.
The project is unlikely to start before the end of year, so this is not an offer (although if any of you are interested I'd be happy to receive your resume). Rather I am doing some research to find out what our salary costs will be and as such I would like to ask if you could give me an idea of what you think an experienced (PHP 5, strong OOP skills, coding with security and server load in mind, etc) PHP would request as salary.
To give a bit more background. The development time has been estimated at 15 months, but that is just for the initial version. It is highly likely that all developers will be kept on to continue development as well as handle bug fixes.
The development team will be located in Bangkok, Thailand.
The PHP part of the project will be write the admin backend dealing with users being signed up, reporting, etc., as well as handling all the communication between the windows based front end programs and the server (database, file server). Communication will be using XML over HTTP.
We are looking for 1 team leader / senior PHP developer, 2 PHP developer and one person to handle the database and file access (we will almost certainly require more than 1 server for the database, 1 write, n read servers). I have to admit that I am seriously out of my depth for that aspect having never dealt with anything busy enough to require more than 1 server to run it all.
Anyway, as mentioned, we are looking to find out what such people will cost us. We know what local Thai 'PHP developers' cost, but unfortunately the vast majority are not even close to the kind of people we are looking for. Hence, we are likely to end up hiring from outside of Thailand.
When quoting salary figures, please keep in mind that the cost of living in BKK is obviously a lot lower than the West (decent studios start at ~$150 / month, 1-bedroom apartments at ~$250-300; food & groceries will likely run you less than $400 / month and that is with eating out daily).
Thanks in advance.
Mo
First of all, Mod, if this is not the right forum for this then I apologize. Feel free to move it to a forum you consider more appropriate.
The company I work for is in the process of finalizing a business plan for a large project. As part of this project we are looking to hire 3-4 PHP experienced programmers.
The project is unlikely to start before the end of year, so this is not an offer (although if any of you are interested I'd be happy to receive your resume). Rather I am doing some research to find out what our salary costs will be and as such I would like to ask if you could give me an idea of what you think an experienced (PHP 5, strong OOP skills, coding with security and server load in mind, etc) PHP would request as salary.
To give a bit more background. The development time has been estimated at 15 months, but that is just for the initial version. It is highly likely that all developers will be kept on to continue development as well as handle bug fixes.
The development team will be located in Bangkok, Thailand.
The PHP part of the project will be write the admin backend dealing with users being signed up, reporting, etc., as well as handling all the communication between the windows based front end programs and the server (database, file server). Communication will be using XML over HTTP.
We are looking for 1 team leader / senior PHP developer, 2 PHP developer and one person to handle the database and file access (we will almost certainly require more than 1 server for the database, 1 write, n read servers). I have to admit that I am seriously out of my depth for that aspect having never dealt with anything busy enough to require more than 1 server to run it all.
Anyway, as mentioned, we are looking to find out what such people will cost us. We know what local Thai 'PHP developers' cost, but unfortunately the vast majority are not even close to the kind of people we are looking for. Hence, we are likely to end up hiring from outside of Thailand.
When quoting salary figures, please keep in mind that the cost of living in BKK is obviously a lot lower than the West (decent studios start at ~$150 / month, 1-bedroom apartments at ~$250-300; food & groceries will likely run you less than $400 / month and that is with eating out daily).
Thanks in advance.
Mo