[Bucephalus355]

3-5 years for AWS / Azure should be minimum $70 per hr (I assume you have some certs).

7-10 years you are talking $80-95

This is in the major cities of Texas. If you accept less than the above that is fine, but those are the highest BUT ALSO quite reasonable rates I’ve seen. If you are contract-to-hire especially accepting lower isn’t bad.

[Bucephalus355]

Independent Contractor...aka Corp-to-Corp...should be minimum 30% higher than that. I would argue double, but I don’t know enough about the subject. That being said the only devs I know making more than 400k in Texas are independent contractors, usually who also are hiring a team for the client as well.

[kernoble]

Do you bring up AWS/Azure because these are rates for Infrastructure/DevOps work?