RE: [PHP-DB] pricing info

This is a snip of my email from the [PHP] general mailing list: ------------ There's several ways to look at this too. Currently I'm doing some work for a small/home business owner. She needed some work done with some shopping cart stuff, a little MySQL DB and some smart forms. Not a lot of work, but then some of the stuff I've not worked with before. We ended up agreeing on US$1000/flat. I was willing to go this route because being such a small business, I knew that money WOULD be an issue. Also, from my POV, you also benefit "intangibly" from every job you do... Keep a private portfolio of work you've done and hour many hours you've put into it. Seperate hours designing the code and hours making the code more efficient, et cetera. Now if a client wants something similar to what you've already done, you simply bill out for: (Development Hours of Code + (Code Modification Hours / 10) + (Code Customization Hours /2)) * Hourly Rate This is a good way to build work for yourself too, as once you have a good compiled library of code, you can take on several jobs at once based on pre-written code, and bill out cross hours as you customize a few pieces of code and get your months salary in a couple of hours ;-) Of course, that IS wishful thinking but still!!! ------------- Jesse Williams System Administrator DowNET VoIP Team Electronic Data Systems -----Original Message----- From: olinux [mailto:olnx@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 10:05 PM To: php-db Subject: [PHP-DB] pricing info Hi all - I was wondering if anyone can share with me their pricing info. I am about to begin my first freelance php project. The base of the project is a web-interfaced sql database with about 30 fields. where users can input data and generate reports. I would be curious to know what the going rate is for such work in the US. thanks much, olinux _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net