A traditional way of software development efforts reimbursing is pay by the hour, which in case of remote programmers means $20-50 per hour, depening on the territory and the complexity of tech stack. However, what is the real amount of work programmers are delivering for that money? How many features and bug fixes they are usually capable of closing in a single working hour? Those metrics are rarely being calculated. In the presentation I will demonstrate the numbers obtained from over 30 projects completely in the last four years, all remotely. The numbers will show that the real amount of money we spend on coding is much higher than we expect.