> It was a very, very hard negotiation to go to 4 week of PTO while reducing my yearly salary by the equivalent of 40H*MyRate. Simple, because the value you're

> It was a very, very hard negotiation to go to 4 week of PTO while reducing my yearly salary by the equivalent of 40H*MyRate. Simple, because the value you're providing is much higher than your salary, so reducing your output costs more than the savings in salary paid. Now if your output is actually linear with hours work, that's another story.