I suspect that you're on a completely different wavelength from the potential candidates for this job. Remember, "Python to create thousands of individual repo

I suspect that you're on a completely different wavelength from the potential candidates for this job. Remember, "Python to create thousands of individual reports on thousands of rows of postgres data per report" I think paying over, say, $75K is going to fail because anyone who can easily make more than that is going to consider themselves too good to do this stuff. There's plenty of stuff that you can pay peanuts for, that you can't get a FAANG-level SWE to do for any price, so the answer to finding the right person is not always "pay more" or do any of the other things that people making $600K instead of $60K expect.