Hi Geoff,
There is no going rate.
The rate that you get depends on how much money the client has to spend
on the project, the client's own estimate of what the project should
cost (which might be severely disconnected from fantasy, to say nothing of
reality) the client's perception of the value of your work and your
ability to communicate with the client. You need to be able to guess what
the client thinks and then set the rate accordingly. If that rate turns
out to be too low for you then you need to move on to the next client.
- yba
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Geoff Shang wrote:
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:15:48 +0200 (IST)
From: Geoff Shang <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: OT: Going rate for LAMP jobs
Hi,
I've been offered work on a (presumably) one-off project, writing some PHP
code to collect data from devices out in the field and store it in a MySQL
database, to provide information/updates (as yet not fully specified) back to
these devices, and web pages to allow users to track the information sent in
by the devices.
Sounds reasonably straight-forward enough, though I've not yet asked for the
specifics.
My question is, what is the going rate for work like this? The person asking
is in the US but obviously they're happy to go off-shore for this so it's not
just the US I need to worry about. I'm of course prepared to be flexible but
I don't want to under-sell myself if I decide to take it, and there are other
reasons why I may not.
Thanks,
Geoff.
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