> > >I've had about two years of experience with perl, and one year of >experience with mod_perl and MySQL. > >I've been doing contract programming jobs for people and charged by the >hour. The rate I currently charge them ($40) was kind of chosen randomly. >I'd like to find out if this figure is too high/too low. Does anyone here >have any experiences to share? > My company normally does short term work (less than a month). Rates are along the lines of $150/hour for the really short stuff, on down to $100/hour for well-defined, known length contract stuff.
Don't cheat yourself ... as a freelance, if they are not willing to put up $80 to $100 an hour, they may not be worth your time by the time you fool with actually getting their business (your own little marketing dept :-) , administrative stuff to document the project, taxes, and an occasional trip to your para-legal or attorney. Thats just my $0.02 (er, 4 minutes, rounds up to 1/4 hour, thats $40 dude) -Bryan
