Toptal

No, the opposite.

A twenty twenty-six survey analyzed over three hundred freelance AI postings across Upwork, Toptal, and Contra and produced clean bands, junior thirty to sixty an hour, intermediate sixty to a hundred and ten, senior a hundred and ten to two hundred, principal or fractional two hundred to five hundred, and then a named expert tier that goes from three hundred fifty up past a thousand.

And the median?

Median independent consultant bills ninety-five to a hundred and ten an hour.

I know you travel a lot, and you have a responsibility for the global footprint of Amazon, which is clearly very formidable.

Um, your, your work in the company has a strong focus on pathways, on skills for jobs, and on collaboration.

We'll certainly dive into some of that in, in the conversation that we're about to have, I'm sure.

And you have a strong, um, focus on peer organizations and partnerships with people around the globe, and that's really been the latest step in a, a great career for you, Valerie, that I'm intrigued to hear more about.

And so when you have these things ...

And now it's being used, um, in, in dozens and dozens of states because it's, it's, it's like fractions of pennies per transaction versus many pennies per transaction for, for a PDF to be able to be accessible.

Um, and a company, TopTal, has actually taken this, uh, this asset and has commercialized it, right? Just a terrific story about students really learning.

Um, and so those are not hard to stand up, and so that's the first one is just pick one.