[bluefirebrand]

Are those pre-tax and post-tax numbers correct? That's a tax rate of almost 50%, which sounds nuts.

You should definitely be getting more than 37 USD/hour as a contractor. That's wildly low.

[falcolas]

For a contractor, where the employer is not paying half of the employment taxes, it's not too out of line.

And yes, as a DevOps developer a few years back, I was able to charge $120 an hour without an issue. My roughly desired pay per hour, times two to cover the un-billable, yet still required, work to be an independent contractor, and another 2x for taxes and health benefits.

[misterremote]

They're correct! But I forgot to mention I'm in Europe not in US. So yeah, I pay around 50% for taxes (biggest of them is social security tax of around 30%).

[temp329192]

I'm on the low end, but still at about $70. I think $37 brings across a wrong signal to the other party as well.