Yeah so I've been wondering about what prices people charge for different tech related jobs... ie what do you charge for a a website? Do you charge by the hour or page or what? A programming project and how extensive? Anyway I'm just curious and could be interesting if I or anyone else do any of those jobs for cheaper or more.

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So what do you do, and for what price?

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Nothing, and for free

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"So there I was completely naked and covered in tartar sauce..."

Neat!

I was genuinely interested, by the way.

[Edit] Because from this I got the impression that you do webdesigning and programming as a freelancer and wanted to compare your pricing to your colleagues': [/Edit]

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[This message has been edited by Krokodile (edited April 21, 2004).]

However I do plan to eventually... And if prices were to come up then I just thought I might want a figure or two in mind.

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"So there I was completely naked and covered in tartar sauce..."

I'm leaning towards programming but if its web design they want...

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"So there I was completely naked and covered in tartar sauce..."

I genearally charge by contract. i want half of my fee up front, the other half paid at job completion.

My fee is determined on the following variables:

1. Job complexity

a. what does client need?
b. what will it take to meet client's demands?
c. Is this something I can do easily or will it be difficult?

2. How long the job will take.

a. Will I have it done in an hour or will I have to slave away on it for a month?

b. when is the deadline? Does the client need it soon, or is it a lower priority task. Express work = MUCH higher fee.

3. Outsourcing

a. will I need to sub-contract services that I don't provide myself, like advanced scripting/search engine rank optimization? If so, expected costs of this are added to the fee, so client ends up paying for it.

b. Any domain/hosting services needed? If so, i add registration/hosting costs to my fee, plus the labor involved in obtaining these services and getting everything ready.

c. will I need to obtain extra software for this job? If so, cost of software is added to the fee. (doesn't happen too often)


When I consider all these things, My fees start at $350 minimum for a simple job and go up from there.

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[This message has been edited by Pagewizard_YKS (edited April 21, 2004).]

here is a hint at my job

i still plan to steal that idea... it's just building the stand that's getting in the way since i'm lazy

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but thankyou for a laugh Charlie

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In the past, I've charge people about 100-150 to build them a website. I started out at 100 for my first customer and later raised it to 150 for the other customer (they were only jobs for my sister's friends - neither of them knew each other so they never found out that I raised the price). I've only done two website jobs and I don't think I'll do anymore in the future since I've lost interest in doing web design.

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What? Were we not talking about how much we charge for ourselves?

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[This message has been edited by Charlie (edited April 21, 2004).]

Best way to do webpages for money, find small rinky dink companies/schools(not likely) or people owned businesses that could use a site, create a layout or two, present it to them with the server costs and what itd take to update and such, see if they buy, or if they already have a site and its crap, create a new one and present it to be sold.


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When I read the title "Post your prices", I thought you were acusing me of being a prostitute.

Edit: Happydud beat me to it...
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[This message has been edited by Mystic0 (edited April 21, 2004).]