Web Developers! What should I charge?
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I'm a web developer with a moderate skill level, persistently learning and dealing with multiple management systems. I'm in college studying Management Information Systems (business technologies). I've worked as an assistant for several small web presence companies, and I'm sort of starting my own freelance business. I'm wondering what I should charge for my services. Here's mostly what I'll be doing: Design or Redesign of Website - I figured I'd charge a project cost for this, between $150-$450 depending on the depth of the project. Hosting & Maintenence - This would cover the annual DNS and server space fees, do I charge markup? Updates & Content Management - Basically, my hourly "edits and upkeep" fee. I've heard I should start as low as $25, but I know most established developers charge around $75-$80. Granted, I'm still learning and not as proficient as them yet, but should I really lowball it that much? Logo Design - If a client needs a logo developed, or have an existing logo they need vectored, etc. I figured again, billing based on project depth. Roughly around $75-100/hr. Graphics - If the client uses a lot of images that need to be resized, optimized, edited, or needs frequent promotional images made. Estimated $75/hr? SEO - Social Media Marketing - I have no idea what to charge for these... I can install and configure MySQL Databases, CMS systems, shopping carts, I can customize Shopify sites/templates, run mailing lists, basic marketing and business consulting.. I can do a lot of stuff, and what I can't, I can learn. Let me know what you guys think! Oh, and if anyone has links to some good contract, disclosure, etc etc type legal boilerplates for web development, that'd be great... Even if you could just tell me what paperwork I'd want to have handy, I can track it down. Thanks so much!
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Answer:
Depends on technology and complexity of requirement HTML / CSS / JS - $5-$10 / Hour PHP - $10 to $15 / Hour JAVA - $15 - $20 ? hour CMS - $10 / hour for more info, plz contact cmsGalaxy
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Other answers
That sounds way too expensive for someone who isn't a master of the technology. Plus your just a college student. I wouldn't charge no more than 15 an hour max, for anything you can offer.
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