Flex, Flash, and Ruby hourly billing rates

HotGigs has a feature where they collect and aggregate the hourly bill rates of the consultants on their site. Here are the average hourly bill rates for Flex, Flash, and Ruby, surprisingly they have sub-categories for Flash all the way down to Flash Remoting but there’s just one category for Ruby with no Rails sub-category.

For the Rails rate I’d guess that Rails is to Ruby as Flex is to ActionScript. I threw PHP in there as well to mix it up.

ActionScript hourly bill rates
ActionScript bill rate (low): $50.00
ActionScript bill rate (high): $75.00
ActionScript pay rate (low): $32.50
ActionScript pay rate (high): $48.75
Average hourly bill rate: $62.50

Adobe Flex hourly bill rates
Adobe Flex bill rate (low): $75.00
Adobe Flex bill rate (high): $125.00
Adobe Flex pay rate (low): $48.75
Adobe Flex pay rate (high): $81.25
Average hourly bill rate: $100.00

Flash hourly bill rates
Flash bill rate (low): $50.00
Flash bill rate (high): $75.00
Flash pay rate (low): $32.50
Flash pay rate (high): $48.75
Average hourly bill rate: $62.50

Flash Design (no full data but this was the average)
Average hourly bill rate: $50

Flash Remoting hourly bill rates
Flash Remoting bill rate (low): $60.00
Flash Remoting bill rate (high): $80.00
Flash Remoting pay rate (low): $39.00
Flash Remoting pay rate (high): $52.00
Average hourly bill rate: $70.00

Ruby hourly bill rates
Ruby bill rate (low): $75.00
Ruby bill rate (high): $95.00
Ruby pay rate (low): $48.75
Ruby pay rate (high): $61.75
Average hourly bill rate: $85.00

PHP hourly bill rates
PHP bill rate (low): $70.00
PHP bill rate (high): $90.00
PHP pay rate (low): $45.50
PHP pay rate (high): $58.50
Average hourly bill rate: $80.00

Flex had an average hourly bill rate of $70 a couple of months ago so it’s on the move (what recession?), if you’re an ActionScript Developer still doing Flash work get on the Flex train and raise those rates!

The rates seem about right to me (actually remoting seems low), what do you think?