Your hourly wage should be priced much higher than your wage for fixed yearly employment because the time is inconsistent and there is overhead. If you make $1

Your hourly wage should be priced much higher than your wage for fixed yearly employment because the time is inconsistent and there is overhead. If you make $100k/year at a full time salaried job you should price your hourly at $100/hr. This is why plumbers charge $80+/hr -- it is skilled labor and the work is not constant and there is overhead. You have to consider vacation time/benefits/overhead/etc. To estimate yearly salary at full employment of near 40hrs/wk is double the hourly x 1000 per year. So a $100/hr wage is about $200k/year if you are working a full 40hrs per week on client work and there is no overhead. This is never the case -- there is always overhead. tldr: $100k/hr is not at all an unreasonable level for a software developer to value their hourly time.