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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.


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.


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




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