Hourly Rate
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- jimeeboy510
evad, your about page is a knee slapper!
- evad0
thanks jimeeboy51!
:)
- idsgn0
man , i have a feeling im on the low end of the stick!
- Soler0
I don't charge less than 50 p/hr, cos you only end up getting 35 after taxes.
Also, I stress that it is for 3 rounds of proofs, and I give a new estimate if it goes beyond.
I also don't give them files til I am paid. Learned the hard way on that one.
- heavyarms0
I have a good web contract. I need to read my GAG book though for sure. It sounds like many people here working by the project have the right clauses in place to protect them from getting cheated at all.
"I charge $35/hr but have recently planned out flat rates for different projects to give out. I have discounts for small/new businesses so I don't scare them off with my rates as well."
That's an interesting idea. If you do it that way you rates aren't really too low you just giving them a discount. I was just thinking the other day how some people have really big ideas and aspirations for the web but don't have much funding at all.
So how much of a discount do you give them?
- kbags0
NEW JERSEY - 75/hr. for most services (most clients are NYC based)
Most projects--from design to plumbing to building a data center--are calculated on a per-hour basis and yes, you NEED to be able to justify your costs. That doesn't mean you can't back into it though. What I do is squeeze a budget out of my client and then tailor my service offering to that number. I use the aforementioned rates to break up the lump sum into hours, but we all spend more time on projects than we say we're going to, right? Soooo...
...it's like my first boss out of college taught me: You take the client, the client's budget and any other variables, and then you throw a dart at a dart board.
Works every time.
- EuroTrash0
Soler: Good point about the 3 rounds of proofs and the new estimate.
And YEAH...clients don't always pay.
I usually ask for 50% up front, and if I don't know the client at all and am not sure about them, I ask for at least 90-100% upfront. Everybody gets a contract as well, yet I still charge them 100% upfront. If they pay they mean business, if they fuck around, then I don't have time for them. I don't let people dangle carrots in front of me.
- monumentDave0
in dc, i charge around $50 for coldfusion, database, and design work for side project rate.
i guess i could charge more from the sounds of it. I'm gonna charge $75 from now on. usually i just do the lump sum anyways cause i work faster and i'm not going to give a site to a client with database/programming/design stuff for like $500... no way.
- EuroTrash0
momentumDave:
Usually with site development such as applications, you mostly can copy and paste your work, if you do that in design they will say...hey that's a copy, but if you do it in code ...its works.So in your case I would charge a base fee and then and hourly rate for modifications (which you will resell anyway in a later project...damn code jockeys you)
- Mimio0
Some of you guys are expensive. In the Detroit area, we've never paid more than $80/hr. for a database consultant. Most of our contract designers get paid about 25-35/hr. If a flash programmer came in here and said he/she gets $100/hr. I wouldn't be able to repeat that to my CD without him laughing histerically.
- monumentDave0
Eurotrash:
with code, it depends.. i'm working on a creating a library of code or just complete customizable applications (online tracking system, e-commerce).so i can just fix it up in an hour and it'll be done. and be like $5k richer. but for the most part i just start from scratch cause most of the stuff is kind of customized.
it doesn't take long to program in cfm though, especially if you got Mach-II locked down.
i just got paid $4200 to move a site up in ranking... i split it 50/50 with my buddy who got the deal. we got their site up in like one week on the first couple pages of google.,
- Soler0
i'm charging 50 for print, by the way.
AND, just cuz I charge 50/hr, doesn't mean anyone knows exactly how much time it actually takes.............. Thats where you can beef that up too if you're feeling jacked by a client
- ********0
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- heavyarms0
"So in your case I would charge a base fee and then and hourly rate for modifications (which you will resell anyway in a later project...damn code jockeys you)"
Thats what I'm doing from now on as well. Otherwise if your working hourly it's like giving an application away besides modifications.
- EuroTrash0
ANY OTHER RATES?
(nice to get a feel for what everybody charges, our little NT survey)RATE LIST UPDATE
(all values are in US$, also some people have posted two values and I have averaged them up):mitee - $75 LA, CA
idsgn - $35 Can
JazX - $35 Pittsburgh, PA
fifty50 - $52.5 Can
Monk - $75 Miami, FL
Combustible - $31.5 Can
arseni - $45 San Francisco, CA
redfridge - $60 Indianapolis
auricom - $55 Richmond, VA
omana - $50 Milwaukee
drake - $60 Atlanta, GA
jimeeboy51 - $35 USA
evad - $75 Omaha, Nebraska
kbags - $75 NJ
- jimeeboy510
I am cheating myself.....geez. For those that get around $50/hr gigs, who are your clients? Small business? Med? Large? Public? I don't want to sound racist, but more realisticly speaking, are there any noticable differences when dealign with clients with different ethnic bgs? I've dealt with asians (I am one too so dont flame me), and they usually want to bargain as low as possible. But when I deal with caucasions, money isnt as much as a factor to them, because they expect rates to be high anyway. How bout location?
- shaft0
I wonder why there's nobody from EU posting here. Is it that bad compared to the US rates?..
- ********0
we're not so vulgar as to talk abut money daaaarling
- brooke0
I have local, national & international clientele. The rates don't seem to vary from country to country, but only by the size of the company. Small businesses pay the standard, large ones always have extra cash to burn. I don't think I've ever been seriously ripped off.
- carver0
oh yay, i too have local, national & international clientele...from design and copywriting for the pharmaceutical industry to a wide range of trade literature, plus accessability projects towards education/risk management, and marketing postioning for turf accountancy. i am not to into the whole insipid brou-ha-ha, of hourly rates, although..i take home quite a satisfactory £56k, and i am in charge of 12 workers(1 gay/1 coloured). i am also vice prez. of both my local golf club and local rotary club. my name is michael norton carver, i am thirty one years old, divorced once, now living with anja a former polish beauty queen and gymnast! i thang you! daft eh?