[AccessD] Rate for first time

Yes, $10.00 is too low. Keep the rate higher and bill less hours if you 
don't feel right about billing while "learning" something new. But you are 
establishing a relationship and once you set that rate, you will have a real 
hard time raising it later, so aim high. Only you can know what your free 
time is worth. When I do the occaisional outside moonlighting gig, I 
generally take my regularly hourly wage on my day job and double it. And 
then I adjust that number a bit up or down depending on how bad I want to 
work on the specific project. If I really don't want to do it, I set a 
pretty high rate and then I feel better about working on the project while 
I'm doing the work. My free time is worth a lot to me so I hate giving it 
up.

Of course I have a full time day job that I am usually able to put in as 
many hours as I want to, so mostly I'm not needing the extra work either. If 
I were wanting more work, I'd probably have a bit of a lower rate so as to 
attract more business.

I'd say that you should charge AT LEAST $25 an hour though no matter what or 
where. You can always bill less hours if you feel guilty about charging to 
much.

Gary Kjos
garykjos at hotmail.com



>From: "Hollis,Virginia" <HollisVJ at pgdp.usec.com>
>Reply-To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
>To: "'accessd at databaseadvisors.com'" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
>Subject: [AccessD] Rate for first time
>Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 11:16:11 -0600
>
>I know this has been asked a zillion times....
>
>What is a fair hourly rate for developers? I have been asked to do my first
>outside developing for a company. Since this is my first time, is 10.00 
>hour
>too low?
>
>They are wanting it set up as a consultant, is that different than an
>independent contractor? I am not sure what the difference would be tax 
>wise?
>Any suggestions?
>
>Virginia
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