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Dear oDesk Providers,

The latest and most up-to-date rate distribution can be found in oConomy.

The following information is not current and will not be updated:

Here is some information to help you set your hourly rates.

(Note that you can change your hourly rate on the "Profile" tab. The new rate shows up immediately on your profile, does not affect currently Active assignments and will take effect on your next assignment.)

Below are two tables showing distribution of hourly rates for both providers and assignments for ALL skills in the network.

• Go to providers rate table
• Go to assignments rate table

Please keep in mind that the table shows hourly charge rates that already include oDesk Fee. The oDesk Fee is 10% of the bill rate. When changing your hourly pay rate, our interface will show you the total hourly charge rate before you save the change.

Hourly rates are NOT the only criteria used by buyers. Buyers have told us that they consider several other important factors in making hiring decisions:

• oDesk Work History (how many hours worked?)
• oDesk Skills Tests taken
• Certifications from vendors such as Brainbench and ExpertRating
• Schedule flexibility (will you be online at the same time as the buyer?)
• Years of Experience
• English skills

What does everyone think of the data in the table? Are you surprised by the rates for any of the skills? Have any of you had success adjusting your rates?

Also, let us know what other information you would like to see.

Here is a table with the distribution of Hourly Charge Rates, for ALL Active Providers, for the ALL Skills mentioned on their profiles:

Revised: January 2008

	These charge rates are for Providers that have EVER billed				This charge rate distribution is for ALL Providers, whether they have billed or not
Skill	Total Developers with Skill	Lowest Charge Rate(	Average Charge Rate(	">Maximum Charge Rate (	$0-5	$5-10	$10-15	$15-20	$20-25	$25-50	$50+
3D Design	137	$1,11	$15,90	$50,	13,%	40,%	33,%	8,%	1,%	5,%	1,%
Access	320	$0,01	$16,70	$90,	13,%	38,%	25,%	11,%	6,%	4,%	3,%
ActiveX	113	$0,01	$17,48	$50,	4,%	38,%	32,%	12,%	4,%	9,%	7,%
Adobe Flex	51	$5,56	$21,13	$113,	8,%	27,%	29,%	18,%	2,%	14,%	4,%
Adobe Illustrator	31	$2,00	$16,55	$35,	12,%	32,%	32,%	8,%	8,%	8,%	4,%
Adobe Photoshop	42	$0,01	$14,09	$30,	9,%	44,%	29,%	6,%	9,%	3,%	3,%
AJAX	826	$0,00	$16,38	$400,	9,%	44,%	30,%	10,%	3,%	3,%	2,%
AJAX/PHP/MYSQL	16	$8,89	$14,01	$20,	6,%	44,%	50,%	0,%	0,%	0,%	0,%
Application Design	267	$0,00	$20,90	$135,	4,%	24,%	34,%	17,%	8,%	9,%	6,%
ASP	419	$0,00	$16,30	$80,	9,%	44,%	26,%	13,%	3,%	3,%	2,%
ASP.Net	32	$5,56	$21,10	$100,	4,%	39,%	25,%	11,%	14,%	7,%	7,%
ASP.NET 2.0 with SQL Server 2005	18	$5,56	$14,78	$25,	22,%	33,%	22,%	22,%	0,%	0,%	0,%
ASP.NET+ADO	703	$0,00	$16,77	$400,	6,%	45,%	31,%	10,%	4,%	3,%	1,%
Assembler	129	$0,01	$16,77	$35,1	6,%	32,%	37,%	15,%	6,%	5,%	2,%
Asterisk	26	$6,99	$24,50	$54,	4,%	15,%	31,%	19,%	8,%	15,%	8,%
Borland C++ Builder	99	$4,44	$16,05	$34,	6,%	39,%	37,%	12,%	3,%	3,%	2,%
C/C++	18	$5,56	$16,99	$25,	11,%	17,%	44,%	17,%	11,%	0,%	0,%
C/C++/Unix	262	$3,89	$17,21	$80,	8,%	34,%	30,%	17,%	4,%	5,%	3,%
C/C++/Win32SDK	393	$0,00	$17,00	$50,	5,%	35,%	39,%	12,%	4,%	5,%	2,%
C#	16	$6,89	$23,99	$100,	21,%	14,%	29,%	14,%	14,%	7,%	7,%
C#/.Net	708	$0,00	$17,25	$400,	5,%	42,%	31,%	12,%	5,%	4,%	2,%
C++	24	$7,78	$16,18	$22,5	4,%	35,%	35,%	17,%	9,%	0,%	0,%
CakePHP	13	$9,37	$13,38	$17,	17,%	50,%	33,%	0,%	0,%	0,%	0,%
Cobol	27	$5,56	$20,43	$50,	19,%	7,%	26,%	26,%	7,%	11,%	4,%
CodeWarrior/C++	13	$10,00	$17,60	$30,	0,%	46,%	15,%	23,%	0,%	8,%	8,%
ColdFusion	84	$0,00	$19,39	$113,	4,%	39,%	31,%	13,%	2,%	11,%	5,%
Corel Draw	15	$8,89	$15,95	$29,75	7,%	29,%	36,%	21,%	0,%	7,%	7,%
Crystal Reports	258	$0,00	$16,21	$100,	10,%	44,%	24,%	13,%	5,%	3,%	2,%
CSS	751	$4,44	$16,90	$113,	9,%	39,%	32,%	11,%	4,%	4,%	2,%
CSS/HTML	18	$7,00	$15,74	$38,7	24,%	29,%	29,%	12,%	0,%	6,%	0,%
Data Entry	248	$1,67	$10,99	$35,	44,%	29,%	16,%	8,%	1,%	2,%	1,%
Database Modeling	338	$4,00	$18,97	$113,	5,%	31,%	33,%	15,%	6,%	7,%	5,%
Delphi	229	$5,56	$16,31	$50,	6,%	38,%	34,%	14,%	3,%	4,%	3,%
Delphi/VB	19	$5,56	$16,09	$40,	15,%	30,%	35,%	15,%	0,%	5,%	0,%
Design/Flash	275	$3,33	$16,05	$80,	8,%	45,%	30,%	11,%	2,%	3,%	1,%
DotNetNuke	102	$0,00	$15,17	$45,	4,%	56,%	26,%	9,%	2,%	3,%	2,%
Dreamweaver	31	$2,56	$16,13	$50,	14,%	32,%	39,%	11,%	0,%	0,%	0,%
Driver development	27	$7,78	$17,11	$30,	4,%	33,%	30,%	19,%	7,%	7,%	7,%
Drupal	32	$3,99	$15,89	$27,	7,%	43,%	33,%	3,%	10,%	3,%	3,%
EDI	17	$11,11	$21,92	$50,	0,%	38,%	19,%	19,%	0,%	19,%	13,%
Excel	18	$2,22	$14,35	$22,5	18,%	24,%	35,%	18,%	6,%	0,%	0,%
Facebook APIs, PHP, MYSQL, AJAX, HTML, JAVASCRIPT, MySQL	12	$9,99	$15,31	$18,	8,%	25,%	58,%	8,%	0,%	0,%	0,%
Filemaker Pro	14	$2,22	$18,87	$50,	14,%	21,%	43,%	7,%	0,%	7,%	0,%
Flash	18	$7,00	$17,58	$50,	12,%	35,%	29,%	12,%	6,%	0,%	0,%
Flash/ActionScript	216	$2,56	$16,95	$113,	16,%	39,%	26,%	9,%	2,%	5,%	2,%
Flash/Macromedia	401	$2,56	$15,60	$113,	14,%	42,%	29,%	8,%	3,%	4,%	1,%
FoxPro	82	$2,56	$16,17	$50,	10,%	45,%	24,%	16,%	0,%	5,%	2,%
Games/Windows	72	$4,44	$16,44	$60,	18,%	34,%	23,%	13,%	3,%	7,%	6,%
Graphics	285	$2,00	$16,32	$50,	11,%	38,%	29,%	13,%	3,%	5,%	2,%
GTK programming	11	$11,11	$17,23	$30,	0,%	36,%	27,%	27,%	0,%	9,%	9,%
Hibernate	129	$8,00	$17,63	$55,	5,%	29,%	35,%	20,%	6,%	4,%	4,%
HTML	34	$4,44	$18,43	$72,	6,%	32,%	32,%	19,%	0,%	3,%	0,%
HTML / CSS	10	$2,56	$13,27	$19,8	10,%	70,%	10,%	10,%	0,%	0,%	0,%
HTML / XHTML	10	$8,89	$15,67	$22,5	20,%	30,%	20,%	20,%	10,%	0,%	0,%
HTML/DHTML	1193	$0,00	$16,31	$113,	9,%	40,%	30,%	12,%	4,%	4,%	2,%
HTML/DHTML/CSS/Javascript	26	$0,00	$14,72	$25,	8,%	46,%	27,%	12,%	8,%	0,%	0,%
Illustrator	15	$13,33	$21,86	$50,	0,%	33,%	25,%	8,%	17,%	8,%	8,%
Informix	15	$7,78	$18,28	$24,	7,%	20,%	33,%	27,%	13,%	0,%	0,%
IntelliJ IDEA	50	$10,00	$18,67	$48,	0,%	22,%	48,%	18,%	6,%	6,%	4,%
InterBase	56	$0,01	$15,47	$23,4	7,%	34,%	38,%	16,%	5,%	0,%	0,%
Internet Research	23	$3,33	$8,18	$15,	76,%	6,%	18,%	0,%	0,%	0,%	0,%
J2EE	362	$0,00	$17,56	$90,	5,%	35,%	33,%	14,%	6,%	6,%	4,%
J2ME	95	$0,00	$16,74	$42,	2,%	38,%	38,%	13,%	4,%	4,%	3,%
Java	54	$4,44	$18,03	$50,	4,%	40,%	27,%	19,%	4,%	4,%	0,%
JavaScript	445	$0,00	$17,13	$113,	11,%	37,%	30,%	11,%	5,%	5,%	3,%
JBoss	88	$8,89	$18,54	$55,	1,%	31,%	34,%	21,%	4,%	6,%	4,%
JFC	37	$7,00	$18,74	$31,5	5,%	13,%	39,%	29,%	8,%	5,%	5,%
Joomla	195	$4,44	$14,85	$80,	15,%	44,%	29,%	6,%	2,%	3,%	2,%
JSP	245	$0,01	$17,61	$55,	2,%	37,%	33,%	15,%	6,%	6,%	5,%
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)	12	$11,11	$15,83	$20,	0,%	42,%	50,%	8,%	0,%	0,%	0,%
LAMP administration	172	$3,99	$17,94	$55,	5,%	33,%	33,%	15,%	8,%	4,%	2,%
LaTeX	21	$10,00	$16,36	$22,5	0,%	33,%	48,%	14,%	5,%	0,%	0,%
Lotus Notes	20	$5,00	$16,97	$35,	21,%	26,%	11,%	26,%	11,%	5,%	0,%
Mac OS X	58	$3,89	$20,09	$50,	7,%	18,%	21,%	37,%	4,%	12,%	7,%
Macromedia Director	43	$5,56	$18,95	$80,	7,%	44,%	26,%	12,%	2,%	2,%	0,%
Macromedia Dreamweaver	11	$8,89	$16,01	$29,75	20,%	50,%	10,%	0,%	10,%	10,%	10,%
Mambo	112	$6,67	$16,75	$80,	9,%	47,%	29,%	6,%	3,%	3,%	2,%
Math	23	$5,00	$19,95	$50,	4,%	13,%	46,%	17,%	13,%	0,%	0,%
Microsoft Excel	17	$2,22	$11,44	$22,5	42,%	25,%	25,%	0,%	8,%	0,%	0,%
Microsoft Word	15	$2,22	$13,11	$30,	38,%	15,%	38,%	0,%	0,%	8,%	8,%
MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)	13	$4,44	$11,84	$25,5	50,%	17,%	17,%	8,%	8,%	0,%	0,%
MS-SQL	621	$0,00	$17,41	$400,	6,%	43,%	28,%	13,%	5,%	3,%	2,%
MySQL	638	$4,44	$17,33	$113,	7,%	39,%	30,%	14,%	4,%	4,%	2,%
MySQL, Oracle, Interbase	47	$6,00	$14,47	$18,	4,%	54,%	22,%	20,%	0,%	0,%	0,%
Online Payments	144	$4,00	$16,49	$50,	9,%	39,%	33,%	11,%	3,%	4,%	3,%
Oracle	12	$7,78	$19,10	$31,5	10,%	10,%	40,%	30,%	0,%	10,%	10,%
Oracle Application Server	20	$7,78	$16,29	$35,	9,%	36,%	32,%	9,%	9,%	5,%	0,%
Oracle DBA	84	$6,67	$22,58	$400,	6,%	35,%	29,%	13,%	8,%	5,%	4,%
Oracle Forms	32	$4,44	$15,84	$35,	21,%	15,%	45,%	6,%	9,%	3,%	0,%
Oracle PL/SQL	174	$0,01	$18,28	$100,	7,%	35,%	30,%	14,%	8,%	5,%	2,%
Oracle Reports	26	$7,78	$17,75	$35,	4,%	27,%	50,%	8,%	8,%	4,%	0,%
Oracle, DB2	79	$8,89	$15,88	$25,	1,%	45,%	37,%	13,%	4,%	0,%	0,%
OsCommerce	185	$6,67	$14,84	$80,	9,%	55,%	25,%	6,%	3,%	1,%	1,%
OSCommerce / PayPal / Credit Card / Yahoo Shopping Cart	13	$8,89	$10,72	$15,	46,%	46,%	8,%	0,%	0,%	0,%	0,%
PalmOS	40	$2,22	$13,90	$27,	8,%	58,%	20,%	13,%	0,%	3,%	3,%
Perl	184	$5,56	$18,39	$55,	5,%	32,%	30,%	19,%	7,%	3,%	3,%
Photoshop	578	$2,00	$15,81	$50,	14,%	39,%	30,%	10,%	3,%	4,%	1,%
Photoshop CS2, CS3	18	$8,89	$15,48	$30,	6,%	47,%	35,%	6,%	0,%	6,%	6,%
PHP	490	$4,44	$16,31	$80,	8,%	43,%	32,%	10,%	3,%	3,%	1,%
PHP, MYSQL, AJAX, HTML, JAVASCRIPT	24	$4,44	$12,36	$18,	18,%	45,%	32,%	5,%	0,%	0,%	0,%
PHP/HTML/DHTML	419	$3,33	$15,93	$100,	10,%	44,%	32,%	8,%	2,%	3,%	2,%
PHP/IIS/MS SQL	118	$6,00	$15,03	$50,	14,%	48,%	23,%	11,%	2,%	1,%	1,%
PHP/MySQL	984	$0,00	$15,53	$100,	10,%	44,%	30,%	9,%	2,%	3,%	2,%
phpNuke	57	$6,00	$17,50	$50,	7,%	34,%	40,%	9,%	5,%	2,%	0,%
PocketPC	64	$0,00	$18,25	$60,	3,%	48,%	19,%	13,%	3,%	10,%	5,%
PostgreSQL	138	$5,56	$19,15	$80,	3,%	24,%	42,%	16,%	6,%	6,%	6,%
PowerBuilder	12	$8,89	$14,95	$19,	8,%	50,%	33,%	8,%	0,%	0,%	0,%
Project Management	278	$0,00	$19,26	$135,	8,%	26,%	31,%	18,%	8,%	7,%	5,%
Python	57	$4,44	$19,79	$72,	9,%	23,%	23,%	28,%	7,%	7,%	7,%
QA	107	$0,00	$15,13	$50,	7,%	48,%	28,%	13,%	0,%	4,%	3,%
Qt	21	$11,11	$17,46	$30,	0,%	33,%	38,%	19,%	5,%	5,%	5,%
Recruiting	32	$2,99	$13,83	$30,	29,%	23,%	26,%	13,%	6,%	3,%	3,%
Remoting	41	$3,33	$19,81	$50,	2,%	27,%	37,%	17,%	5,%	7,%	5,%
Ruby	120	$0,01	$18,66	$50,	4,%	36,%	25,%	17,%	9,%	8,%	6,%
Ruby on Rails	30	$3,99	$20,35	$60,	4,%	29,%	29,%	18,%	11,%	7,%	4,%
Search	38	$2,99	$12,96	$35,	31,%	38,%	18,%	5,%	0,%	8,%	8,%
SEO	183	$0,00	$15,32	$113,	17,%	44,%	23,%	8,%	3,%	3,%	3,%
Sharepoint	49	$4,44	$21,38	$50,	4,%	13,%	32,%	30,%	11,%	9,%	4,%
Smarty	197	$6,49	$16,44	$80,	8,%	41,%	34,%	9,%	4,%	3,%	2,%
SOAP	119	$4,44	$18,13	$55,	5,%	33,%	29,%	17,%	7,%	7,%	5,%
Spring	13	$13,33	$20,44	$31,5	0,%	9,%	45,%	27,%	9,%	9,%	9,%
SQL	470	$0,01	$18,22	$113,	5,%	34,%	32,%	15,%	7,%	6,%	4,%
SQL Server 2005	11	$8,89	$20,17	$45,	10,%	40,%	10,%	20,%	10,%	10,%	0,%
SQLite	21	$6,76	$20,26	$45,	10,%	19,%	19,%	24,%	14,%	14,%	14,%
Struts	103	$6,00	$18,03	$55,	4,%	29,%	35,%	20,%	6,%	5,%	3,%
Sybase	23	$8,89	$20,69	$54,	4,%	29,%	29,%	21,%	8,%	0,%	0,%
Symbian SDK	22	$10,00	$15,69	$22,5	0,%	32,%	59,%	5,%	5,%	0,%	0,%
Systems Programming	68	$3,89	$19,08	$50,	4,%	29,%	32,%	13,%	12,%	7,%	6,%
TCP/IP	161	$3,89	$17,62	$54,	10,%	28,%	33,%	17,%	5,%	4,%	2,%
Tech Writer	117	$3,33	$17,68	$80,	14,%	30,%	29,%	14,%	4,%	5,%	3,%
Testing	137	$2,99	$15,82	$50,	15,%	37,%	26,%	12,%	4,%	3,%	3,%
Tomcat	119	$5,56	$17,46	$55,	3,%	29,%	39,%	18,%	6,%	3,%	3,%
UI Design	200	$5,56	$18,32	$50,	6,%	36,%	31,%	14,%	5,%	7,%	3,%
UML	218	$4,44	$17,55	$50,	5,%	32,%	33,%	19,%	5,%	5,%	4,%
Unix Shell	137	$6,99	$19,17	$54,	4,%	28,%	31,%	20,%	7,%	9,%	5,%
VB/.NET	436	$0,00	$16,34	$50,	7,%	43,%	29,%	13,%	4,%	3,%	2,%
VB/Delphi	10	$11,11	$16,73	$22,5	0,%	40,%	30,%	20,%	10,%	0,%	0,%
VB/Delphi/ASP/IIS	21	$0,01	$14,15	$21,	5,%	57,%	29,%	10,%	0,%	0,%	0,%
VBA	115	$7,00	$17,65	$50,	9,%	32,%	32,%	15,%	6,%	4,%	3,%
Video Streaming	65	$7,78	$17,37	$45,	5,%	44,%	33,%	8,%	2,%	9,%	2,%
Visual Basic	257	$3,00	$16,74	$54,	12,%	38,%	26,%	13,%	5,%	5,%	4,%
Voice/Windows	34	$7,22	$16,80	$35,99	3,%	43,%	31,%	9,%	9,%	6,%	3,%
VoIP	41	$4,44	$19,37	$54,	13,%	20,%	35,%	15,%	5,%	8,%	3,%
Web design	19	$3,33	$18,73	$50,	18,%	24,%	29,%	12,%	12,%	6,%	6,%
Web Sphere	41	$7,78	$18,02	$30,	2,%	31,%	31,%	17,%	12,%	7,%	7,%
WebLogic	59	$7,78	$17,74	$30,	4,%	32,%	25,%	21,%	11,%	7,%	7,%
Windows Administration	143	$3,33	$17,22	$50,	11,%	31,%	35,%	10,%	3,%	8,%	4,%
Wireless	30	$5,00	$19,13	$54,	13,%	33,%	17,%	13,%	10,%	10,%	3,%
WML/WMLScript	39	$10,00	$17,38	$36,	0,%	38,%	43,%	10,%	5,%	5,%	2,%
WordPress	117	$3,33	$16,80	$80,	18,%	34,%	25,%	11,%	3,%	6,%	4,%
XHTML	16	$6,67	$19,47	$40,	29,%	7,%	21,%	21,%	7,%	14,%	7,%
XHTML/CSS	16	$8,89	$16,94	$30,	14,%	21,%	50,%	7,%	0,%	7,%	7,%
XML	677	$0,00	$17,05	$100,	5,%	39,%	32,%	14,%	4,%	4,%	3,%
XML-RPC	30	$11,11	$19,35	$50,	0,%	23,%	40,%	27,%	3,%	3,%	3,%
XUL	15	$11,11	$19,51	$30,	0,%	27,%	33,%	20,%	7,%	13,%	13,%

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Here is a table with the distribution of Hourly Charge Rates, for ALL Assignments that have ever billed, by the Skill Requested in the assignment:

Revised: February 2007