FN-FORUM: Is this fair? I cant decide...

date posted 1st August 2007 18:24

I got a call today from someone starting out in web development. It was
a typical networking type call, just trying to get his name out there.

I did in fact, this morning, get a small piece of work that i wasnt
going to have time to do so i asked him to quote for it. He came back
with rates that you would expect from a developer with years of
experience and a fairly substantial portfolio, neither of which he had.

It got me thinking, is it fair for people starting out to be charging
rates that more experienced developers charge? My gut feeling is to say
no, its not fair, its taken me a long time and a lot of hard graft/late
nights to get to a point where i can charge such rates, so to have
someone just "start up" charge the same seems unfair.. or am i being a
grumpy old git?