[raarky]

without giving out hard numbers (unless you want to), what is the average comparative rate that a startup pays compared to a larger company?

Are they on the same pay scale or do they pay less since it's a "startup" a money can be tight

[Swizec]

For me personally I have managed to get higher hourly rates from startups than larger companies. Simply because they actually value me and my work and can see it directly reflected on their bottom line.

I could probably get better rates at bigger companies, but being a small guy in a big pond of what, to them, looks like interchangable cogs I don't have a lot of bargaining power.

How do you convince someone who doesn't know about this stuff, that it's better to pay you fairly than pay peanuts to the neighboor kid? (for what they think is equal work done at equal quality since they don't care)