Comment by sidlls

When I was doing it they claimed that $65 per hour was a "good" rate for the Bay Area, and constantly pressured me to lower my rate to that. There were a few clients with names anyone here would recognize, but they were looking on Toptal specifically to get cheap labor for poorly specified work. Most of the clients were more like the stereotypical E-lance "small business" (read: one-person operation looking for cheap developers to build them the next Facebook for the equivalent of a $500 fixed fee).