How do you determine what to charge?

Started by ratintrap, July 08, 2009, 09:24:02 PM

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typeman

Hourly rates are so funny. I tell people $20 per hour if you want me to work slow, $150 per hour if you want me to work fast! Actually I try to get the client to accept a total dollar amount for the job instead of an hourly rate. I explain to them that is the only way to compare apples to apples when looking at quotes. Supplier A may be very well versed in all the software and have the latest equipment. Supplier B has an old PC with Ragemaker and don't know chit. Supplier A could charge $150 per hour and Supplier B charges $15 per hour. At the end of the project it may still be cheaper to use Supplier A.

ratintrap

Yes, it sounds like estimating the time and coming up with a fee up front seems like the way to go.

beermonster

well now - very interesting

err right - k two people i know "very well" once ran their own company as a side thing - lets call them...two people in the trade - who have now split up...

anyhoo - these people did 2 large projects for my friends - err THEIR friends, and both times charged a hour by hour rate, and both times was a resounding success - a lot of the time it depends on how professional your friends are

so we they all agreed about supplying stuff like images as a digital file from photographer - which i they made good and corrected on screen, and text was supplied as a word file read straight in

sure - there were changes but at each stage we they gave an up to date inventory of whats been done, and costs - we they just agreed a certain limit before "credit" ran out which was documented anyway

and we they made a nice profit which the ex someone took and i my friends didnt get a damm penny - so work for friends yes - but do it for yourself!
Leave me here in my - stark raving sick sad little world

johnhodges

I think, it is according to the work done.

Farabomb

Quote from: johnhodges on April 30, 2011, 12:06:07 AMI think, it is according to the work done.

Guess you don't work in prepress.
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Quote from: Farabomb on April 06, 2016, 11:39:41 AMIt's more like grip, grip, grip, noise, then spin and 2 feet in and feel shame.
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gnubler

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So,  :drunk3: i send the job to the rip with live transparecy (v 1.7 or whatever) and it craps out with a memory error.

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Farabomb

First post of the morning I think as well.

'Tis a bit dead here and the Mac crashed twice in a half an hour. Time for my applejacks.
Speed doesn't kill, rapidly becoming stationary is the problem

I'd rather have stories told than be telling stories of what I could have done.

Quote from: Ear on April 06, 2016, 11:54:16 AM
Quote from: Farabomb on April 06, 2016, 11:39:41 AMIt's more like grip, grip, grip, noise, then spin and 2 feet in and feel shame.
I once knew a plus-sized girl and this pretty much describes teh secks. :rotf:
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
         —Benjamin Franklin

My other job