Title: Senior Software engineer Experience: 8 years Salaried offer: $125K+ benefits
This salary should translate to about $85/hour as a contractor.
I don't understand your math... 85$ per hour * 48 weeks (4 weeks vacation) =163K, say you have excellent benefits valued @ 15k (excluding vacation) you are now at 148K
Much better then 125k (Almost 20% more) ... Even if you are 1099 and need to pay an additional 7% in taxes...
+ Paid overtime!