[lessnonymous]

"... for the price we want to pay" isn't accurate.

I have an advert out at the moment for PHP dev in Melbourne that clearly states we want to pay top dollar.

I'm still only getting applications from web developers who happen to know enough PHP to make them dangerous.

Of the applicants, only four are reasonably interesting.

Three of them are here on 457s.

[boyter]

What figure would you put as "top dollar"? Your opinion of top dollar and mine might be totally different.

[anip]

If you want top talent you need to pay $100-150k+

[lessnonymous]

So tell me what you're looking for? The ad doesn't say more than we're willing to pay.

Nowhere does the ad say "competitive salary offered". We all know that means "we're cheap and don't want to pay".

[boyter]

For Sydney I am mostly unwilling to look at a job for less then 100k. That figure is somewhat dependent on what the place is like though its not a hard line rule.

My experience has previously shown that if you mention PHP though the salary expectations are usually less then 75.

[Trezoid]

Any reason why you need PHP devs specifically?

[lessnonymous]

All our code is already written in PHP. But I'm more interested in a great coder that knows PHP rather than someone who's been writing PHP for years.

It would be nice to say any great coder would be good, but I do need someone who at least knows PHP.