The advice given to me by a consultant focused on small (under 30 employees) professional services businesses is that your hourly rate always have three digits. This means that a firm should never ever charge less than $100 per hour. Since a freelancer has less overhead than a company, the rate would drop accordingly.
If you are doing side work that's in addition to your "real job" then you need to take into account what that time is worth to you. I personally haven't tackled any side projects in over a year, but when I did, I charged a high rate because I knew that I'd be dedicating nights and weekends to the project. I value this time a lot and didn't want to short change myself, especially since it was "extra money". If you are a full-time freelancer, then you would charge differently in order to keep your primary income stream coming in. ...Dan On Nov 2, 2007, at 9:51 AM, Spina, Andrew wrote: > A quick way to figure the hourly rate is to shift the decimal 3 places > in your yearly and cut it in half. 100k is roughly $50/hr. > > For senior level work I'd expect from $75 to $200/hr. > ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
