Full Time Wages? Please Help!

I have been working as a freelance flash designer/developer and 3D modeler for the past few months and a company wants to give me a full time position. I am not new to the indusrty, but am new to the "getting paid" part.

My job description would be to create the front-end (clientside) web space for a backend system they have already created. I would be working solo or with another web designer creating the layouts/design, coding the html and connecting the two environments (Flash might be involved).

How much should someone get paid to do this? In Canadian dollars I think they should pay me at least $20 an hour.

What do you think?
How much did you get paid starting out?

If it helps, please look at sites I have created to get an idea of my skill levels. (www.shiftback.com)

You can get a handle on the general range for your geographic area at http://www.salaryexpert.com/ .

-monster.

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Originally posted by monsterfx
You can get a handle on the general range for your geographic area at http://www.salaryexpert.com/ .

-monster.

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For a web designer in Toronto ON:
Low Average High
54,426 68,305 79,924

For a web interface designer in Toronto:
Low Average High
96,534 121,152 141,760

Web Production Assistant in Toronto:
Low Average High
33,555 42,112 49,275

This states I should recieve anywhere from $15-$50 an hour.

Yeah, the biggest problem with Salary Expert is they don't give desicriptions of every job title so you can match up to the closest one. http://www.salary.com does a much better job of that, but unfortunately does not cover Canada. You might try salary.com and just see if it helps you match up the job titles/descriptions to what you are doing.

Then just decide where you think you should be compared to "average" based on a combination of your experience, your ability, and the companies ability to pay you.

-monster.

Salary.com was not much help either. Do you think these salaries have been inflated? They seem a little high don't you think?

No one wants to share what their salary is/was?

Enstent, Just stumbled on your post doing a search. If you're still intereted...
I'm also in Toronto:

Base Salary $50,000 Plus annual bonus ($1,000 - $10,000 depending on how often they catch you sleeping at your desk during the year)

Job Description: Interactive Developer
*Expert Actionscript
*Expert Flash
*Intermediate Lingo/Director
*Project Management
*OK at design but not great
*And a few other filler skills (I just finished 18hours of powerpoint...CRAP!!)

I did some research on salary survey sites before negotiating my salary and I feel they may be inflated a bit. I think my company may be a bit low for their fulltime employees. For freelancers I've seen people come in and do very basic work and get $35/hour for extended contracts, so freelance work seems to be ok.

Good Luck, I hope this helps.
MJ

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Originally posted by mj97
...(I just finished 18hours of powerpoint...CRAP!!)
MJ

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Holy cow! That's my year's sum total of Powerpoint experience, and I'm only talking about the stupid Powerpoint slideshows my buddies send to me.

Corporate life, eh?

;)