One word of advice I'd also like to offer - the pickier you are about the TYPE of project you take the less you're going to make. If there's competition for the

One word of advice I'd also like to offer - the pickier you are about the TYPE of project you take the less you're going to make. If there's competition for the project the client can get away with paying less. If you can suck up doing boring backend work for pharmaceutical companies you can ask for much better $$ than working with a seed-level social media startup or a popular blog. There's a tradeoff where your ego lies - in high rates vs putting sexy names in your client roster...