If you are hiring programmers, you should pay them $200/hr. This breaks through otherwise impenetrable psychological barriers, helps solve the agency problem, and ensures you are only hiring programmers when you really need them.Expectations$200/hr is an open declaration of your expectations. It states that you are expecting to hire both a professional and an expert in the field.As a programmer, I treat contracts that pay me $200/hr differently from jobs/contracts that pay me $65/hr equivalent salary in two key ways. First, I treat issues and requests with far greater urgency. I’ve been...