It's an SV engineers salary, but it's probably not an SV contractors salary. Contractors have overheads and inconsistent work, 500USD a day is reasonable. I wo

It's an SV engineers salary, but it's probably not an SV contractors salary. Contractors have overheads and inconsistent work, 500USD a day is reasonable. I would also assume their contractors are fully up to speed with the project, it's not reasonable to compare them to an unknown developer in Brazil.