How much do you charge for contract work?
Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 11:54 pm
Now that I no longer have a full time job and am back in college again, I only have time for small contract projects. Although I have done some of these before, the amounts I got paid were not really set in stone before the job and were usually just negotiated beforehand, like I didn't go to people with a price sheet of all my services. Perhaps this is an interesting question for like AskSlashdot. But I wanted to ask the phpDN community since my main skills are in php and MySQL. Back in the day it was expensive for making HTML, like $500 a website or even a page. I think now rates are lower because there is so much competition. Anyways, I want to make some kind of a contract work price sheet to attach to my resume online that I can point potential employers to.
What do you charge for contract work for things like PHP (per page, site, hours or lines of code), MySQL (SQL queries and/or design a database), Unix/Linux (configuring or troubleshooting a Unix server or software), Software Applications (in C++ or Java, how do you rate that, by hours?), Hardware (I usually only charge about $60/hour for this and an extra $50 to make a service call), Networking (installing a small home or office network, both software and cabling, do you charge by hour, job, what?), Websites using HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
Those pretty much cover my main skills that I have to offer. Please share your rates for contract work and how you rate individual services. Thanks!
What do you charge for contract work for things like PHP (per page, site, hours or lines of code), MySQL (SQL queries and/or design a database), Unix/Linux (configuring or troubleshooting a Unix server or software), Software Applications (in C++ or Java, how do you rate that, by hours?), Hardware (I usually only charge about $60/hour for this and an extra $50 to make a service call), Networking (installing a small home or office network, both software and cabling, do you charge by hour, job, what?), Websites using HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
Those pretty much cover my main skills that I have to offer. Please share your rates for contract work and how you rate individual services. Thanks!