On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Robert Cummings wrote: > All in all I spent 20 hours total for the client at a rate of $40 USD/hr > which I believe is on the low end of freelance. I myself have 3 years > experience devloping PHP web applications. So the question I ask is whther > this time frame is reasonable, or am I just a slow crappy programmer that is > ripping these people off? They seem to think I should have had this done in > just a few hours, but my experience thus far indicates to me that they got > just service. Additionally it seems before I took the job, they had went > through several other PHP developers would said they couldn't do it (and I > don't really blame them considering the VNC connection and lack of comments or > error feedback). > > If it turns out that I am incompetent, then I will happily send them a > bill for zero hours, otherwise I would like to take comfort that I am not > ripping them off.
It sounds very fair to me. My time would have been similar if not more (esp. not knowing the state of the existing code), and my hourly rate 2-3 times yours. mh. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
