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> The majority of those interviewed were paid approximately $100 per hour for the work they did, according to multiple interviewees.

This seems like a low rate for any type of consulting work.

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Not at all. Where are you from?

Lol even react boot camp newbies are charging 100 per hour in US

Show me where these jobs are. With many years of experience working in EU I can’t imagine this

More like $33 an hour...

https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Skill=IT_Consulting/Hou...

I just checked toptal minimum for react quote is $75.

Consulting, speaking for my line of work, is something like 200 €/hour, web development is around 100 €/hour for larger agencies. That's for Germany.

That's what the customer pays, not what you see on your paycheck. 100€/h would equate to 16.000€ gross a month/192k a year, and no one pays that in webdev.

If we’re talking about hourly rates, which we are, then the implication is that there’s a degree of insecurity in the work.

If you have insecure work, and you aren’t seeing 100€/h on your entity’s “paycheque”, you’re doing something wrong.

You're totally right!

As the other comment said not everything is "billable hours" and, speaking for Germany again as a Freelancer, you've got taxes, health insurance etc. so your 16k get down to much, much less pretty fast.

In my experience contracting for bigger companies you can be close to 100% billable by just billing a default 8 hours per day. Not counting the time without an assignment of course, but that should not be long if you have skills and a network.

You can definitely make close to that as a contractor / freelance web dev. I make about 85-90 per hour and should be charging more..

https://youteam.io/blog/how-much-does-it-cost-to-hire-an-it-...

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