Here's a thought exercise I would like to put to test sometime. Let's say I would like to make USD 200 000 a year as a contracted sotware engineer. And I would

Here's a thought exercise I would like to put to test sometime. Let's say I would like to make USD 200 000 a year as a contracted sotware engineer. And I would like to try billing 10 hours a week. Take 6 weeks off a year, so this is 46 weeks. And that's 460 hours I will try to bill. To make 200 000, I must bill USD 435 per that hour. The deal would be: I bill you for 10 hours, and you can be sure I worked hard for those 10 hours. I probably worked 40 hours, but I bill you 10. But that's the going rate.