I've been freelancing for a while and I've taken offers ranging from 10 USD/hour to 45 USD/hour. Minus insurance, minus VAT and other taxes, minus expenses such

I've been freelancing for a while and I've taken offers ranging from 10 USD/hour to 45 USD/hour. Minus insurance, minus VAT and other taxes, minus expenses such as electricity/heating, Internet, ~20USD/month on AWS bills, and gear (which right now is just my laptop, tablet and extra monitor). I make between minimum wage and the average programmer's salary on my home country (which is a little above the average for senior developers but almost nothing for junior ones), without using my native language at all, and my average week is usually more than 40 hours. I have to be available on sundays and pretty much every holiday, but at least I don't have any reason to hate mondays and I don't have to commute either :-) Also, I get to travel a lot because I can work from almost anywhere in the world (I've lived in 2 different countries last year and visited many others), although it brings me down a little having most of my human interaction reduced to emails and online posts (Plus, when my girlfriend is not around, I have to talk to my cat to keep my vocal cords in shape. Seriously, it's quite difficult to just start talking when you remain silent for most of the day :-))