{"id":43172,"date":"2026-10-22T20:27:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T18:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/looking-for-australian-freelance-developer-rate-benchmarks\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T20:27:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T18:27:36","slug":"looking-for-australian-freelance-developer-rate-benchmarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/looking-for-australian-freelance-developer-rate-benchmarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking For Australian Freelance Developer Rate Benchmarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>i&#8217;m trying to bump up my freelance dev income so I can drop some accounting hours. things are moving, but I have no idea if my rates are actually normal for Australia. most of the pricing info I find is US stuff and it doesn&#8217;t really apply here. sydney seems more expensive than melbourne, and regional areas are different again<br \/> has anyone seen a decent dataset of australian freelance or contract dev rates? ideally split by tech stack, experience, and location. even a shared spreadsheet would help right now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/felitram\"> \/u\/felitram <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1xcpw09\/looking_for_australian_freelance_developer_rate\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1xcpw09\/looking_for_australian_freelance_developer_rate\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-43172 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='43172' data-nonce='8bd368e94e' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-43172 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-43172 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;m trying to bump up my freelance dev income so I can drop some accounting hours. things&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}