[UGAF] Designing rates

[Robert Merrill]

Forgive that I am on gmail mobile and cannot snip or bottom-post.

A rule of thumb for determining your contract rate is to divide your
salary by 1000 and charge that per hour. So, if a salary for someone
of your skillset would be, say $60kn then $60/hr is a good starting
point. Of course market forces, plus your own personal supply/demand
for work will affect what you charge. If you hire a subcontractor, I'd
recommend you bill at *least* 1.5x their cost to you, though 2x isn't
uncommon.

@wade, I think this approach is very fair and reasonable. It makes
excellent sense, and is easy to both explain to the client and track
the results thereof. X pages = $y. Simple as that.

@ray, those are likely the baseline rates, but I can't find any
developers willing to take that little! my base pay-rate for that kind
of work would likely be $5 to $10 higher.



On 1/15/08, Ray Jenson <ray.jenson at gmail.com> wrote:
> D. Turnbull wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'm volunteering with Make-A-Wish Utah and part of the work I'm doing
> > involves advising them on possible changes to their web site. I'm
> > developing multiple strategies for how they might proceed, and two of
> > the possibilities include:
> >
> > * converting their existing design to CSS
> > * implementing a new design (with CSS, of course)
> >
> > I would like to give them general cost estimates, but I honestly have
> > no idea how much it might cost. Without developing specific proposals
> > and asking for bids, is it possible to estimate the costs? Is there
> > and average figure or per-hour rate that I could tell them to help
> > them weigh the choices?
> >
>
> The going base rate for CSS design is $16.40 per hour in Utah. By
> comparison, HTML design is $12.48 per hour. Both of these figures came
> from notes I made a few months ago with DWS. Graphic design is between
> those at $13.48 per hour. All I can say is, I'm glad that's the bottom
> end of the rates.
>
> I've been told freelance rates don't get measured, typically, but that's
> a guideline that should give you a rough-guess percentage to calculate from.
>
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