Re: Semi-ADVERT OT

tedd schreef:

At 11:32 PM +0200 8/19/08, Jochem Maas wrote:

@Stut: good points about freelancing, it's also worth noting that a freelancer charging 'top dollar' will probably not end up costing anymore than someone charging half as much because they generally get the job done in half the time and, as Stut pointed out, they're liable to deliver stuff that you can rely on rather than have to pray it works.

Jochem: Seriously, after I told one client that I charge $50 per hour, told me that he never paid more than $25 and would I work for that? I replied "Yes, but it will take me twice as long to get anything done." Strangely, I wasn't hired.

lucky you. personally I don't work for people like that anymore, they pay peanuts and they are never ever satisfied. karmically speaking it's likely he got himself a monkey and the resulting project mess as well.

Too bad that it's considered bad-form to discus what rates we should charge, for I certainly would be interested to see the range.

bad form heh? that's a challenge, round here the rates are somewhere between 25 and 80 euros/hour for the kind of stuff we do, on a freelance basis ... if you go a company the going rate is somewhere between 50 - 120 euros, most companies use different rates for different tasks e.g. (from most to least expensive) art direction, system design/development, backend programming, design, frontend programming.

Cheers, tedd