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Re:Owning nothing is now a luxury, thanks to a number of sub... by yibg on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @02:22AM (#20153356)
There are lots of stories (and also some info) on engineers working at FAANG making ~$400k a year or up. Granted these are not your typical engineering jobs, but they do exist and in not so insignificant numbers; say it's 1% of engineers (made up number).

I am curious though as to the distribution of freelance / contract rates. Is $200 / hour also 1% of engineers? More? Less? Financially for the same person what's actually a better route? For someone that can get $400k a year at google, is that better or worse than the contract route on average?

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Re:Owning nothing is now a luxury, thanks to a number of sub... by literallycancer on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @06:47AM (#20154305)
$200/hour definitely isn't the top 1%. On the other hand you could work at FAANG and run a company as a side project, you could use some of your connections there to get interesting contracts.
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