It helps to know what salaried folks make in your area. Then add the value of benefits (401k, health care, paid time off, etc) plus overhead costs to the salary. You really have to do your homework on these. Then take that number and do the math to get what their hourly cost is to the company. And start there. ie. someone making $32 an hour is could really be costly $64 to the company.
Now for me I knew it was easier. I knew what the hourly charge was when my company charged for my time. The range was $74-110 an hour. So what I ended up doing for my independent clients which are all small business owners and cant afford those big rates, I broke it down into service categories. $60 - Networking/Programming/Database Administration/Telephony/misc IT (the majority of my work) $40 - Basic Static Website Development/Graphics $35 - Hardware, Telephony and Network Physical Installation/Basic Software Maintenance $25 - Basic Static Website Maintenance Now I only do between $1k-$2k a month so this is by no means a full time gig for me and I don't go through anyone. Its all word of mouth customers (for now). And I do give discounts on customers who give me larger taskings. Hope this helps. ~Terry -----Original Message----- From: RichL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 10:44 To: CF-Talk Subject: Contract rates ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:275018 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
