[itake]

I have a friend that has literally only done contracts for the last 8 years. To put bluntly, he is bad at coding and could never last in a full time job. He once bragged to me that he took a Microsoft Azure cert after failing the test 5x.

There are high paying contracting jobs, but they are only available to people that know people that offer good contracts. A friend of a friend has a 6mo contract with a Fintech company paying $500k.

[bdog5487]

Two people I worked with, left and ended up landing a $150/hr consulting gig for the last 4 months. Neither had more than 6 yers of professional developer experience but they are AWESOME devs. 100% remote. They were just informed their contracts were extended for 12 months. Each are approved for 40-50 hours per week. Current project: MEAN stack. Next project looks like MERN or JAVA. Large company primarily in/around healthcare related services.

[itake]

I know at least one tier 3 public tech company is paying $300k/yr usd ($200k base + 15% bonus + 70k in stock) for people with less than 4 years of experience + full benefits (401k, 18 days pto, etc.)

[angarg12]

What would you say is a good and a top hourly rate?

[itake]

Checkout this thread from last week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32606348

[angarg12]

Thanks, very useful! I see there are better rates out there indeed.

[oikawa_tooru_]

What does the guys stack look like?