I never seen anything higher than $200 for general contracting based work. My friend who's a K8s expert charges around $350 per hour, usually when shit is on fi

I never seen anything higher than $200 for general contracting based work. My friend who's a K8s expert charges around $350 per hour, usually when shit is on fire or initial configuration. However, he doesn't get 40-50 hours of work consistently. He works about 20 hours a week which is fine by him. If he wants to do 40hr/wk work, he gets about $150-$200 an hour. Several of my college professors told me back in late 90s that they charge around $750 to $1,000 per hour for clean code/architecture/XXX on specific topics to companies.