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No it is not. You are underpaid - exploited.
I am making $400/week (4 hours/day for 5 days/week) on my freelance and I am living in the Philippines. You are in the US and supposed to earn 4 - 5 times as much.
My primary knowledge is of philosophy. What this has allowed me to do is come to the conclusion that programming is an extension of datawalke's very being. He doesn't just work as an IT guy. His very existence guarantees both his programming ability and its perpetual growth.
I know for a fact that he is grossly underpaid and devalued. What he hasn't mentioned is that even on top of this job he works frequently on side projects for clients who have never been dissatisfied (to my knowledge). I honestly believe that he simply sleeps less than everyone else as a solution to his lack of time.