What to charge?

[homie27]

I was offered to take over the maintanance of a small company's site and I don't know how much to charge for my services.
It's still a small site, under 50 pages. My primary functions would be to remove outdated products and add new products with pics, description, etc.
We agreed that they'd call me as they needed me.. perhaps once a month, 2x per month, and so on.
Can anyone provide some info on how I should base my fee's and what is an appropriate amount to charge?

 

[SPYDERIX]

Hi,

It mainly depends on how good you are and what the whole job entails and how long it would take you to complete the task. I'd say up to $20/hour approx.

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[grtfercho]

I do the same kind of job for a non-profit and usually update 5-10 pages every two months.
Because now I have templates for the whole thing is just a matter of copy&paste but initially I used to get 25$ hour.

Now I just get 100$ every time I have to change those 10 pages, usually doesn't take me more than 2 hours.

I have another small client that changes information (mostly research articles) every month, the deal still is the same.


If you reach the point where you want to redesign the whole website then prices will go a little higher depending on the bells and whistles you add.





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[cian]

I think if you charge anywhere from €/$20-30 per hour that would be fair for both you and the employer. And I would instist on a minimum deal of at least 1 hours payment. No point getting paid pennies for 10 mins work.

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[Bullschmidt]

I agree that charging by the hour seems to be fair to both sides.

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[homie27]

Thanks for the info. You've all been very helpful!!
I will be presenting $25 hr with a 2 hr minimum. That should allow for plenty of room to negotiate and still stay within a fair price range for both of us.

 

[RISTMO]

Another way to do it would be to charge $2-5 per item, depending on how many items you expect to get. That seems more fair for this type of job, although any other way is just as acceptable. I prefer charging by the job, usually, unless it's a BIG deal (I wish I'd known the site I was bidding a set price on was 10X bigger than I originally thought!!!!!! That's still causing me grief :-s). With this method, you know that you can do one product every x minutes, and you get $y for each one.

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