This only works in a relatively small niche, like consulting bodyshop where billable hour is the only metric.
A coder that works on some internal software, database, in infosec, design is not making any money. A game developer who created a beautiful realistic-looking reflection, a web designer that eliminated possibility of XSS attack, an embedded engineer that spent extra week designing FADEC in such a way that race conditions cannot freeze it, how much money did they make?
This only works in a relatively small niche, like consulting bodyshop where billable hour is the only metric.
A coder that works on some internal software, database, in infosec, design is not making any money. A game developer who created a beautiful realistic-looking reflection, a web designer that eliminated possibility of XSS attack, an embedded engineer that spent extra week designing FADEC in such a way that race conditions cannot freeze it, how much money did they make?