I understand you may not be fully booked 100% of the time, and that there are certain overheads, but despite all that, this guy said $1000 after tax for two day

I understand you may not be fully booked 100% of the time, and that there are certain overheads, but despite all that, this guy said $1000 after tax for two days work is totally unacceptable that gives no consideration to the programmer's skill or experience, location, overheads, average workload, etc Let's say you have 125K after tax (which is what he said), and you spend $12K a year on health insurance (that's $1000 a month on health insurance...), you're still sitting at $113,000 AFTER TAX. Even if you only work 75% of the year because the other 25% is spent finding contracts (188 "working" days per year instead of 250), thats still $93,000 AFTER TAX. For remote work. I don't know where you're pulling the number 30k from... The same magic hat where $125K post-tax is unacceptable?