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[Bradley Baumann]

Ed,

    I charge anywhere from 80-120+ an hour. Completely depends on the job,
and the company.
    Someone wanted me to do a job at 3am once, to save their company because
their huge ecommerce site was launching the same day, and it wasn't working.
Obviously, I'd take this into consideration, too. I charged ~250/hr.
    Honestly, I think charging 40-50/hr isn't professional ($10/hr is almost
childish -- Babysitters charge more.). If you're a beginner just trying to
get some money, perhaps that fee is appropriate -- but if you're a
professional who knows your stuff and know you can get the job done faster
then most others, I defiantly believe that a higher price is more than
acceptable.

Food for thought.
-Bradley Baumann


----- Original Message -----
From: <joshmccormack at travelersdiary.com>
To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at nyphp.org>
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] NYC Freelance rates


> I think there's some major league low balling going on. I bid for a
project and was told by the company about the competing bids. People are
looking for anything they can get, and don't want to risk overbidding. I
think you'd need an impressive history, good sales pitch and good clients to
get $40-$50 with consistency these days.
>
> Josh
>
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Edward Potter wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >   I was just wondering what the going rate for freelance (NYC) PHP
> > programmers was? I have a client that says she is getting scores of
> > resumes where guys are charging less then $20 an hour. I had assumed it
> > was about $40 - $50 these days.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > -- ed
>
>
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