Underpaid Freelancer?
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100.00 an hour... come on man ... I work a ten to twelve hour work day (if not more). Although it would be great to make $1200.00 a day, that's $6,000.00 a week- $24,000.00 a month, $288,000.00 a year. SadistcJay you make more than most doctors and lawyers. Good for you, seems all that drop shadow "attention" you give pays off.
I charge depending on the project. If it's a realtively easy project I don't go and ask for 60.00 an hour to make three banner ads, and copy and paste style sheets. I charge relative to the project and budget. I made as much as 75.00 an hour and as little as 10.00 an hour. On average I charge 25.00 to $30.00 an hour. Don't cheat yourself but don't get full of yourself either. This week I worked on a ten page site, with logo and content already organized by the client. A local firm wanted $1500.00 to do the site, I did it for $400.00 and it took me 5 hours of work. $1500.00 to upload to a server and add some minor graphics and tweak the CSS....please. I did another print project the same day for 300.00 that took me 4 hours. So in one day I made $700.00 by being reasonable and realistic. So actually I made more than SadisticJay this day.
I don't feel my job is hard at all. I love design and working for myself and with the companies that hire me. Playing with colors and concepts and layout is fun for me. I don't believe that any of it is brain surgery and love going to work everyday. Be realistic and things will come together just fine.