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Wow, that's really high. While he was doing nothing, he got paid $2,700, what an enviable position.

Imagine if this mindset was applied to every minute a developer wasn't actually writing code...

Imagine if software companies paid their employees royalties on the code they wrote instead of just paying for the development time... ;-)

If you can negotiate it then a % of revenue or profit is totally doable as a consultant bringing additional millions to the table.