[hiddencost]

For compensation. The carrying cost of an employee is usually twice their total compensation.

[ahtihn]

He said freelancers.

Median compensation for senior engineers in Europe is nowhere near 150k. Even in Switzerland.

[nobunaga]

Any sensible freelancer will have an hourly rate nearly double that of a fulltime employee for obvious reasons. Please stop telling him just to hire a bunch of dev freelancers. Projects like this require UX and business domain understanding. Devs are not going to be doing that. This thread is full of amateurs parading as experienced CTOs.

[davedx]

Freelancers.

[nobunaga]

Any sensible freelancer will have an hourly rate nearly double that of a fulltime employee for obvious reasons. Please stop telling him just to hire a bunch of dev freelancers. Projects like this require UX and business domain understanding. Devs are not going to be doing that. This thread is full of amateurs parading as experienced CTOs.

[davedx]

My freelancer estimate is based on 100/hour, that’s actually quite high for Europe