Re: Pricing for PHP programming???

My normal rate is $80/hr (accross the board). I have friends that get up in the low $100's an hour. Depending on the customer, project and tax form (W2 or 1099) I slide the rate up or down. --Joe On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 03:25:27PM -0500, Shane McBride wrote: > I know this is not really a PHP question, but it should make for a good thread. :) > > I was wondering what other PHP people charge to write PHP? I have just been given a project for > a fairly large customer, much larger than I normally do work for. So I am VERY confused.concerned > about how to price it. Most of my other PHP projects have been done for small single owners > businesses, and the PHP has been pretty basic. > > Now that I can actually do what I am being asked without have to learn it, I am stuck. I did a > shopping cart for someone, but I didn't charge them a REAL price because I didn't know how > to do it with PHP. So, I of course didn't charge the client for my learning curve. > > I know the price is very dependant upon the task. What I am doing is creating a web-based > front-end for a MySQL database. I'll need to create the database tables, etc. The front-end is > going to be rather dynamic since the data content depends largely on the previous choices of the > end-user. One or two tables with 20-30 fields. 5-6 pages of html and PHP. > > I'm just scouting this out, and am VERY confident with the contributors to this list and > their opinions. > > TIA, > Shane -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Stump, PHP Hacker, joestump98@yahoo.com -o) http://www.miester.org http://www.care2.com /\\ "It's not enough to succeed. Everyone else must fail" -- Larry Ellison _\_V -------------------------------------------------------------------------------