Calculating Rates
Calculating Rates
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Check this post out from Teehan+Lax:
http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/20…
Obviously they're a proper agency, but in principle, I'm sure their method can be adapted for freelancers.
- "Very early on Geoff and I struggled with some of these ideas. For starters, we never tracked time at Teehan+Lax. We learned a long ago that time sheets were a fiction. People just made them up. I know because for years I made mine up. What’s the point of a time sheet if the data is false? It’s not telling you anything. Don’t do them."juhls
- ...We learned a long ago that time sheets were a fiction. People just made them up. I know because for years I made mine up. What’s the point of a time sheet if the data is false? It’s not telling you anything. Don’t do them.juhls
- ...mine up. What’s the point of a time sheet if the data is false? It’s not telling you anything. Don’t do them."juhls
- Not really true. You can definitely estimate the time you've worked on it. Not everyone heavily embellishesjuhls
- but sometimes 1 hour = random shit and 10 minutes = sheer brilliance...vaxorcist