Well, of course you can't find $100/hr being offered on a random job board. Nobody is crazy enough to hire an unknown quantity off the street at those rates, no

Well, of course you can't find $100/hr being offered on a random job board. Nobody is crazy enough to hire an unknown quantity off the street at those rates, no matter what the demand is. See Spolsky, Joel: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FindingGreatDevelopers.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FindingGreatDeveloper... The people who are working for $100+/hr are getting those jobs directly from the companies that auditioned them at $40-$80 per hour, or from friends-of-friends of the managers at those companies.