Stop leaving money on the table as a salaried dev.
I went from ESN employee to independent freelancer. Every week I share the strategies, mistakes, and real numbers behind finding missions, maximizing your rate, and building real wealth — not an ESN's.
Find missions
Platforms, networking, recruiters — what actually works to land high-paying contracts without an ESN acting as middleman.
Maximize your income
Rate negotiation, tax optimization, the right legal structure — every lever to keep more of what you earn.
Protect your future
Retirement, investments, rainy-day fund — how to build actual long-term wealth that a salaried position will never give you.
The real cost of being salaried in an ESN
Move the sliders and see how much you're really losing.
Salaried in ESN
33 828 €
net / year
2 819 €/mo
Freelance
86 001 €
net / year
7 167 €/mo
You're losing
+52 173 €
left on the table every year
That's 4 348 €/mo
Net before income tax in both cases. Estimate based on ~40% ESN margin, standard employer/employee charges, and micro-entreprise BNC rate (21.1%). Actual figures vary.
Ready to take back control?
Join developers who decided to stop enriching their ESN. One email per week, real talk, zero BS.