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Help: How much do I charge?

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Well, you can do it in three ways as I see it. 1 - Strictly by the hour, if it's just a matter of updating content, make sure of how much/often he plans to update it, then set an hourly charge that you feel comfortable with. 2 - A fixed fee, this way he and you always knows what the cost/income is but you can get screwed badly if he starts changing a lot several times a week. 3 - A service agreement where he always buys X hours per month (and no savings between months), everything above that is billed by the hour. This is what I'd go for, One argument that actually works for him is the fact that he is more compelled to keep his site updated since he is paying you no matter what, which is better for his customers. It also gives you an outing to get payed for bigger jobs as/if they come along. As for how much to charge? Well that's impossible for me to say. It depends on a lot of things. - The hourly rates in your area. - Do you have a company? If so what is your hourly cost? Use the cost and add the profit margin you want/need to that (usually 20-30%). - Who will pay the taxes, you or him, add/subtract that from the hourly rate. Now you should be roughly correct in pricing. - Is this pocket money for you, in that case you can go cheaper, count on what you would have left after taxes if you had a company and place yourself there. In Sweden a single person company doing simple web-work/updating would probably be charging somewhere around SEK 350-500/hour which would be about $40 - $58 /hour. In that amount the cost for taxes, office rent, software, everything you can think of would be included, plus a margin. Left to live on after taxes and so on would probably be about $16-17. (Now this is Sweden where the government is insane on taxes on small buisinesses) Hopefully you can get an idea on how to calculate your rate from this. /Dan [url=http://www.dmsproject.com/] [img]http://www.dmsproject.com/gif/sig3.gif[/img] [/url] [url=http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/FaqWiki/shownode.php?sortby=rating&id=260]{cell 260}[/url] -{ a vibration is a movement that doesn't know which way to go }- Loading...
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