I get flamed for this sometimes, but we don't normally charge an hourly rate for a
project. After-project maintenance, yes, but for an initial project we normally quote
a fixed price.
The price will cover a minimal hourly rate to cover our costs, but we don't normally
cap it on the top
by saying "that's 200 hours at $125/hour so it's $25,000" (or whatever it would be).
Rather, we try to gain as much info as we can about the project and it's relative
value to
the business. If someone is having us build a system that will net them a direct cost
reduction
of $2 million dollars per year, we will take that into consideration. Some people
think that's
gouging, but we don't see it like that. On the flip side of that, we've taken on
projects
at lower than normal rates because the job was cool, but the value to the business just
wouldn't be all that much. No sense in charging someone $10,000 for an inventory
system
when they only do $20k/year in sales, for example.
Shane McBride wrote:
> I know this is not really a PHP question, but it should make for a good thread. :)
>
> I was wondering what other PHP people charge to write PHP? I have just been given a
>project for a fairly large customer, much larger than I normally do work for. So I am
>VERY confused.concerned about how to price it. Most of my other PHP projects have
>been done for small single owners businesses, and the PHP has been pretty basic.
>
> Now that I can actually do what I am being asked without have to learn it, I am
>stuck. I did a shopping cart for someone, but I didn't charge them a REAL price
>because I didn't know how to do it with PHP. So, I of course didn't charge the client
>for my learning curve.
>
> I know the price is very dependant upon the task. What I am doing is creating a
>web-based front-end for a MySQL database. I'll need to create the database tables,
>etc. The front-end is going to be rather dynamic since the data content depends
>largely on the previous choices of the end-user. One or two tables with 20-30 fields.
>5-6 pages of html and PHP.
>
> I'm just scouting this out, and am VERY confident with the contributors to this list
>and their opinions.
>
> TIA,
> Shane
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