JPG to Vector with live type

Joe · October 04, 2011, 11:12:12 AM

Quote from: Bugs on October 04, 2011, 11:09:57 AMWe are at $60 hr

$9,000 then. I guess it's really important if they agree to pay it. I'll do it for $8,999! :laugh:

Joe · October 04, 2011, 11:13:24 AM

Quote from: Sabrina The Turd Polisher on October 04, 2011, 11:11:27 AM$45 an hour! ~~You are a cheap whore.~~ Wow, that is cheap. :laugh:
I'm $70 an hour!

In 1990 the place I was working at charged $245 per hour. When I started at this place in 2001 they were charging $45 per hour. Hasn't moved since. Doomed!

Skryber · October 04, 2011, 11:15:13 AM

We generally charge $50, however, each customer has they're own special cost depending on their level of PITA.

David · October 04, 2011, 11:17:47 AM

our keyboard time used to be 125.

of course, that was back in the eighties when cash was easy to come by.

Joe · October 04, 2011, 11:27:16 AM

We could charge $5,000 an hour and it wouldn't make any difference. Our customers won't agree to pay for 5 minutes at $45 per hour.

t-pat · October 04, 2011, 11:34:03 AM

our time is worthless until it comes time for a raise (or comes time to fire someone to cut the budget), funny huh?

Farabomb · October 04, 2011, 01:14:18 PM

Think we are at $125/hr here but like everywhere, it's subjective.

DigiCorn · October 04, 2011, 01:18:08 PM

$60/hour here... not that our customers ever really have to pay it

gnubler · October 04, 2011, 02:16:34 PM

Quote from: t-pat on October 04, 2011, 11:34:03 AMour time is worthless until it comes time for a raise (or comes time to fire someone to cut the budget), funny huh?

Happening here right now. I've spent countless hours designing & printing material for a big event and I don't think any of prepress time is being billed. Like Joe says, I'm paid hourly so why should I care...

I care when it cuts into paying jobs like it has the past several weeks.

hotmetal · October 04, 2011, 03:26:58 PM

I've bid on freelance production projects of this magnitude before. My bids were fair and my work stands for itself (i.e., they want vector art and type and that's what they'd get, and I'd use both OCR and Streamline (LiveTrace these days) to start off, in batch mode.) Never got anyone to bite for such a project. An hour each sounds about right. Some would go faster, some would be a bitch. A month's work for one person, a couple days work for a workgroup, if you can find an entire workgroup of this caliber.

If they don't want to pay a professional rate for the work but still expect professional results, you might as well be flipping burgers...

t-pat · October 04, 2011, 03:28:42 PM

I want to work the drive thru window.... 'cause they totally screw you at the drive thru.

Joe · October 04, 2011, 03:31:52 PM

Quote from: hotmetal on October 04, 2011, 03:26:58 PMI've bid on freelance production projects of this magnitude before. My bids were fair and my work stands for itself (i.e., they want vector art and type and that's what they'd get, and I'd use both OCR and Streamline (LiveTrace these days) to start off, in batch mode.) Never got anyone to bite for such a project. An hour each sounds about right. Some would go faster, some would be a bitch. A month's work for one person, a couple days work for a workgroup, if you can find an entire workgroup of this caliber.

If they don't want to pay a professional rate for the work but still expect professional results, you might as well be flipping burgers...

Customers always want professional results. Never at the professional rate though. They always expect it to be free. SOS. Day after day. :cry:

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