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Sorry for unrelated comment, but I'm curious, because I'm from Central Europe too, wanting to be freelancer one day. When you say you make 7.5k$/month, what is your net income after you pay every insurance, tax etc (I haven't really looked into the details of freelancing yet)? Because income like that would put you into top 1% in this area. Or am I wrong?

BTW. Small Central European country => fellow Slovak? :)

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Not Slovakia; but close to Slovenia ;)

$7.5k gross, $5.6k net after all taxes. Subcontracting platforms take a huge cut, so the client is paying around $13k to the platform.

We're trying to remove the middleman and work with clients directly. And we're not really freelancing, more like contracting. Most of our engagements have been 6-12 months long.

> Because income like that would put you into top 1% in this area. Or am I wrong?

Probably, but one can always do better.

Edit: Whoops!

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