Here is something that Lee and I were discussing Friday night, what are the guidelines for charging for freelance work. Flat Rate vs Hourly? Different rates for different services? Reason I am asking is that there is obviously more involved in say PHP coding then say regular HTML. How much is a fair hourly rate for say an intermediate PHP developer? Should the rate be based on experience? Should that rate include research time needed to complete the project? Thoughts anyone?
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Like I had discussed on Friday night, you don't want to undercut yourself but at the same time you don't want to scare away your client. I have always felt that you should charge more for dynamic scripting, Javascript/PHP/ASP/Actionscript, then you would for static scripting.
Honestly in my freelance contracts I charge $75/HR of dynamic scripting. I have worked with people who charge up to $150/HR for such coding but I feel you need to be an established web firm/business to charge that amount.
I am not totally sure on your abilities because I have not seen the code you write, only the outcome but I would say charge no less then $60/HR for that type of scripting.
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