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Not really... I've applied to multiple positions on linkedin and the only one that responded was a rejection because I was asking too much; their hourly rate that could offer was between 15$ and 20$. Hamburg startup rates, apparently, according to them.

I was asking 72k$ per year for a PHP position with 6 years experience working for a company and around 3-4 years part-time freelancing.

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Small startups will pay peanuts. Also remote jobs will usually pay less because the supply is much higher, you compete with 100x more devs than the local devs, some from poorer countries where 20/h is a good rate.

> Also remote jobs will usually pay less because the supply is much higher, you compete with 100x more devs than the local devs, some from poorer countries where 20/h is a good rate.

Is there any data for this?

In my limited experience this was not the case but I've never really looked for a remote job

If you look at the job offers on linkedin, most of them have more than 50-60 candidates. That's my main problem with remote job interviews. How do you reach the actual interview stage when there are more than 100 candidates applying for the same position?

I think the problem with making it easy to apply for a job is that it encourages low effort applications, in essence a lot of people that don't meet the stated requirements will apply thus inflating the totals.

I used to have hiring responsibilities and I think the highest number of applications we got for a role was 57 and the company was completely unknown in a small city in the English midlands, so not exactly a tech hotstop.

A lot of the applications were not suitable at all

20$/hour is basically what you'll earn before taxes for an outsourcing company in eastern Europe.

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