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- akrokdesign0
no one care about you having to take risk or might not have work after the gig. also, they don't care if you need to cover for taxes and health care.
if the design studio you're at charge the client $150/hr, which you will be working on. there is no way in the world, you would get 2/3 or that. if you're lucky, you will get 1/3. which is $50/hr.
- well you should care about your bottom line, no one else will. why subsddize the design studio?monNom
- and you're right about that, but it doesn't mean you should take the job for $50/hr if it's going to hurt you.monNom
- plenty of people with money out there, why give the studio cut when you're doing the work?monNom
- jamble0
Wow, you lot must work on fucking treasure island or something .. I don't think I've ever even seen a project where there's budget for freelancers or salaried staff running into 3 figures per hour.
Either that or there's a lot of ego boosting shit being talked here but what do I know, I'm here on $4500/minute.
- Mr_Right0
I had mentioned in an earlier post that I needed to "up my rates" based on what I was reading here. But just for the sake of full disclosure I charge $50/hr, for design or production. I have been a freelancer for 12 years now. I generally make about 60,000 a year.
I have charged more at times, usually when a client just wants a bottom line cost for doing a project. There's a psychology to money in that $50/hr sounds more expensive than $3000 for a project for some clients.
The reason I have freelanced for so long is simple: Once you start making freelance money it's hard to take a cut in pay to work full time. Most of the full-time positions I run across are around 10 to 15 thousand less per year than what I make as a freelancer. It is what it is.
Also, I know that hourly rates are all over the board, but I have found in general, freelancers who charge top dollar don't seem to last very long as freelancers. Maybe one or two years. I think its because those high rates are hard to sustain, you may have a client that pays $100/hr but the client sooner or later will find out I charge $50, and if both offer the same quality work... well.
Economics will always rule.
Just my 5000¢
- MSTRPLN0
$50/hr + $50 processing and handling.
- stewart0
€75 design
€95 coding/animating
- mcmillions0
Mine is lower than most people ITT, but I've only been working a year now. Are all of you 100/hr QBNers more seasoned/experienced? Or recent grads?
- BattleAxe0
I do Web Stuff and lately mobile , working on games and apps right now as the starving artist , but I still get a few gigs here and there Hourly break down to about $60/hr for php css javascript,flash stuff , lots of people want cookie cut which makes me the shit sales man, I always bill for custom work but when Word press installs are practically free on most shared host now a days , and people (clients) not caring or knowing the diff vs template from template sites and your own cms/framework
mix that in with the fb, twits, my[____] , name a custom site that you go too not run on a mass cms vs custom (this site is custom no doubt) and the app revolution , it is a hard sell for web sites IMO right now , but again I said I am a shit sales man but I strongly feel Web sites in general are as important to feeding any entity as there can be , and there are certainly some good projects out there
need coffee
- pinkfloyd0
I made a flash banner in 8 hours, and charged $2,200. That comes out to $275 an hour. Flat fees FTW.
I can honestly say, one month, I was able to pull in 17k.
- nocomply0
I do web design and development, and a lot of Wordpress customization these days. I freelance for 100% of my income right now and I currently charge $65/hr.
For those of you who charge significantly more, feel free to send me your work, have me do it, and then take your money off the top.
I'm serious.
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TheeOtherJuan - good business man right hereMiguex
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- thisjoseprieto
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