I have not done any freelance work in a long time... maybe 10 years. At
that point I was charging $75 an hour. Most who contacted me wanted to
pay me much less. I was at capacity at $75/hr in 2008. Today I would
charge over $125/hr. I am a PHP developer.
I have a friend who owns a data center and provides hosting services.
For Linux admin and programming he charges $130 an hour.
Made friends with a freelance WordPress developer and he told me he
charges $250/hr.
There are a lot of factors that go into choosing a rate. Sometimes it
is just nice to take on a few side projects for cheep to retire debt
etc.
When I started freelancing in 2008 I decided $75/hr was reasonable
because of the haste factor.
I wrote an article about this several years ago :
https://www.phpprogrammer.org/freelance-php-developer-hourly-rate
One key point is you need to factor in you administrative time as a cost
of doing business.
I'd be interested in any feedback on my article.
Keith
On 2023-03-16 10:42, Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss wrote:
To all those who have done contracted technology consulting ... what
do you charge?
I've been doing work on the side for a local HVAC company, largely
technology administration stuff ... simple stuff ... setup website
hosting, DNS, setup laptops when they need ... nothing terribly hard
or time consuming.
Recently I've grown frustrated with all the manual steps involved with
setting up a new user account ... Google/M365/LastPass/Adobe ... so I
decided to dig in for a bit and enable domain federation (SAML/SSO) on
them.
To my utter delight, it worked and was fast easier to set up than I
initially thought.
Now, when i create a new account in Google, an account will be
automatically provisioned in both LastPass and M365, hooray! In going
to queen on the same for Adobe DC later today.
My question is ... what do I charge for this? What's reasonable? I'm
already fairly technically inclined, so it wasn't that difficult for
me to read the instructions and follow along ... but there was a fair
bit of PowerShell scripting required on the M365 part, as that work
could only be done with PowerShell using the AzureAD & MSOnline
modules.
I appreciate your input, as this level of work for a customer is a
first for me.
Thanks,
Alexander
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