[aristofun]

There are basically only 2 ways to scale up your income beyond current market rate (nobody would pay you more if they can buy it for cheaper):

1. Obtaining a very unique yet demanded enough expertise, so that certain companies hunt for you because it is critical for the business and there is not many people in the world who can do that (for example building facebook scale datacenters from scratch, or being a creator of java).

2. Having your own business and your own customers.