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freelancing 125/hr * 36 hr/wk * 44wk = 198k

• bsvalley 10y ago
  I agree, though, are you really booked 44 weeks in a row as a freelancer? Seems pretty rare.
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  • dustingetz 10y ago
    yes i am booked essentially whenever i want to be. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13302154 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13302154 for my portfolio. I can't tell you if it's rare but I can tell you that the stated rate was within reach of twenty-something me back when the portfolio was not nearly as good and i didn't work at google or anywhere like that. higher rates require more free-time investment and better portfolio (obviously worth). I have a friend with a worse portfolio who writes Scala and is always booked though i dont know if he is making $125 yet.
• lastofus 10y ago
  Finding 36 * 44 hours of work a year at that rate is non-trivial, not to mention the difference between 1099 taxes vs w2 taxes you pay as a salaried employee.
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  • sean_patel 10y ago
    Right. And the equal (if not more) amount of hours spent chasing leads, marketing (blogs, advertizing etc) accounting, to get the steady stream of work.
  • dustingetz 10y ago
    the difference is 7% iirc, its kind of negligible which is why i dont even know exactly what it is. Because the hourly rates ratchet at higher increments than 7%. If you want more money you go release a side project, give a talk about it and poof 20% raise on next project.