Most of them bill for more hours than they're actually coding. I don't think this is malicious -- it's simply replicating the salaried structure, where goofing

Most of them bill for more hours than they're actually coding. I don't think this is malicious -- it's simply replicating the salaried structure, where goofing off and Facebooking are still part of a work day. I am a 1099 contract developer and I definitely bill for non-coding time. If there is a bug and I have to read stackoverflow for an hour to fix it, I bill for that hour. You want me to do a code review on your in-house developers' tickets and it takes an hour, I bill for that too. I build for time spent running tests, submitting PRs, merging code, deploying, and updating Jira. I bill for meetings and phone calls, I bill for emails, I even bill for time I spend billing you. 30 hours of coding can easily be 50 hours billed.