Money

Most of our work is fixed rate, although some is calculated on an hourly basis. In either case the money is distributed in the following way:

• 80% goes to the developer
• 10% goes to the project leader as thier "management fee" for performing such duties as
  • Creation and maintenance of Paneris and PMS data
  • Customer management/liason
  • Administration
• 10% goes to the person who secured the job for Paneris as a "finder's fee"

  Finders Fee

  The finders fee is envisaged as a sales incentive, for members of Paneris (or partners of Paneris) to sell the work of other members.

  Current Rates

  We currently charge £40 per hour. This means that a developer can expect to earn £32 per hour, £4 per hour goes to the finder and £4 to the project leader.

  Other Rates

  Many projects are fixed price, in which case the hourly rate will be calculated by the project leader. A good scheme is to divide the fee by the total number of hours worked.

  Rewarding the Gifted

  When the pigs fly we will all work for free and recieve all we need for nothing.
  In the meantime it seems iniquitous for the talented to be paid the same, per hour, as the less talented.
  An equitable mechanism would see those who can do a days work in three hours still paid a whole days pay.

  This becomes possible on fixed price jobs, where the estimate is safely based upon the productivity of the average programmer. To this end we seek to estimate jobs without a particular programmer in mind.

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  Document Dated: Tue Nov 3 14:13:26 1998
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