You got downmodded for complaining about being downmodded. The anchor price for generic (solo, incl. project management and interaction design, but excluding graphic design) web dev is ~$120/hr, but Rails and Django people are hard to find right now.

iPhone rates seem to top out at around $200/hr, and iPhone devs "feel" like the hardest consultants to hire right now, so there's your range.

Note that these rates bear no resemblence at all to what a big firm would get. There are all sorts of other risks big firms mitigate that you can't. [%]

[%] (to wit: the risk of negotiating with your brain fully engaged)

why the downvote? It was an honest question.

Am I missing something? Is what I said offensive in some way to someone? If so, would you please care to clarify?