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Re:How to Work Out What to Charge Clients by odonnellryan on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @01:10PM (#16267439)
> And I'm not kidding myself. Most companies know they can get good devs for significantly less than 400/hr.

You can get a great dev for much, much less than $400/hr. You're right. However, should I charge less than that to do a few hours of work for you? Absolutely not.

If I'm doing a small project for a few hours for you I have to charge a lot to cover the business costs.

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Re:How to Work Out What to Charge Clients by JamesBarney on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @01:28PM (#16267619)
Yeah, the projects I'm pricing out are usually 200-1400/hrs. I can totally see that rate for smaller projects. I imagine utilization rates are a lot harder to keep high with work that granular.
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Re:How to Work Out What to Charge Clients by odonnellryan on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @02:33PM (#16268222)
Yes absolutely. If I have a client that's going to drop a thousand plus hours into the project they're getting charged a quarter of what someone who just needs me to log in once and a while gets charged.
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Re:How to Work Out What to Charge Clients by chirau on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @02:19PM (#16268094)
1400/hr ??? What do you do?
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Re:How to Work Out What to Charge Clients by mhb on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @02:31PM (#16268200)
He's saying that's the length of the project. Not the rate.
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Re:How to Work Out What to Charge Clients by vosper on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @04:06PM (#16269023)
I know there's an international tax lawyer in SF charging $1250 hour. If you want the big bucks, law's one of the places to get it (provided, presumably, you work hard and are very smart).
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Re:How to Work Out What to Charge Clients by odonnellryan on Thursday February 01, 2018 @11:54PM (#16288517)
There are people who specialize in arbitration who make 10k+/hr!
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Re:How to Work Out What to Charge Clients by reificator on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @02:31PM (#16268206)
I think they mean that that's the estimated time allotted for the project. What they're implying is that they charge less because of it, but if they worked shorter projects, they would likely charge more.
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