Now I realize that recruiter types are just spamming stuff out, but I got an email saying I was a “Great fit!” and so I sent dude an email saying “Hey I am currently making $30 can you beat that?” He comes back with max rate is $ 21. Now unless you're living in the sticks in a cabin you built yourself, there is NOWHERE in California that this is a living wage. Plus anyone with decent IT skills is not going to work for that. What world are these companies living in, that they think they can get people to work for crap wages like this?