US Freelance Rates
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The reason to charge $60/hr or more is that you're not billing 40hours of work as a freelancer (if you are then you're working 60 hours weeks). As a freelancer you have hours on the phone, half days pitching to potential clients. At most, 3/4 of my time when I was freelancing was actually billable hours.
Hourly rates are a somewhat fictional - I have tough clients that won't ever pay more than $50/hr and I've spoken to their accounts people and they say "It's fine if you do 10 hours work and charge us for 15 if that's the final price you need... we just need out books to read that we only paid you $50/hr."
The moral is - charge whatever rates clients want to pay. Quote the hours it takes to make up how much $ you need to survive. Business is business.