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Standard Hourly Rate..

by Patrick
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Hello Everyone !

I am a full time freelancer who has been in this line since 2-3 years now. I have always charged my clients on project basis and NEVER worked on an hourly basis.

But nowadays, I think a good portion of people who want you to work for them long term prefer an hourly rate from you.

I am a developer and I have created 100s of sites and have a solid portfolio and reference.

What is the standard hourly rate out there in the market ?

Thanks..
#hourly #rate #standard
  • Profile picture of the author sparrow
    What kind of work do you do exactly

    you spoke in general terms and which part of the world are you working from

    I hire free lancers all the time and this is what I base my hourly rates on

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    Originally Posted by schwarzes View Post

    Hello Everyone !

    I am a full time freelancer who has been in this line since 2-3 years now. I have always charged my clients on project basis and NEVER worked on an hourly basis.

    But nowadays, I think a good portion of people who want you to work for them long term prefer an hourly rate from you.

    I am a developer and I have created 100s of sites and have a solid portfolio and reference.

    What is the standard hourly rate out there in the market ?

    Thanks..
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  • Profile picture of the author goodmast3r
    I think that depends on where you live. I'm a web developer my self. Asian country rate can be $10 / hour. European maybe $20/ hour. And US maybe $30-$40/hour. So what happen is a lot of smart companies outsource to Asian countries, like Indonesia, or India.
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  • Profile picture of the author Henri J
    Why not look at what your competitors are charging and go from there?
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by schwarzes View Post

    But nowadays, I think a good portion of people who want you to work for them long term prefer an hourly rate from you.
    This has never been my experience at all. I've always found that clients want a fixed rate for the job and have little interest in how many hours it takes you to do it.

    When "quoting for jobs" I always had my standard hourly rate in mind, but quoted a fixed amount, after learning enough about the job to be able to estimate how long it would take me (and if I'd estimated wrongly, I just lived with that).

    Originally Posted by schwarzes View Post

    I am a developer and I have created 100s of sites and have a solid portfolio and reference.
    I find it very difficult indeed to imagine that your clients will be at all interested in discussing it in terms of an hourly rate. When I have a site made, I want to know exactly what I'm getting and how much it's going to cost me, and not have to worry about someone else's working speed.

    I also want, as a customer, to compare prices from different sources before commissioning work, and on an "hourly rate basis" I can't do that, unless I know the person's working speed from my own experience of dealing with them.

    I don't care whether the outsourcee earns $3 per hour or $50 per hour: I just want to know whether it'll cost me $250 or $500. :confused:
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  • Profile picture of the author butch04
    Every time I go to a freelancer I want a flat rate.

    Hourly rates to me are to risky online. For all I know you can be out at dinner or whatever when I think your working on my site and your charging me for it.

    Heck people do this in real life so...

    At least with a flat rate I know its paid for and I just need to wait for the finished product.
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