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150,000/yr (~75/hr) is low.
How is that low? once again, I must whip out some statistics: http://swz.salary.com/salarywizard/layouthtmls/swzl_compresu... The average full-time web developer salary is 70k. I'm not saying I don't want to make $150k+, but I just can't find any way to substantiate the claim that I'm worth that much.
Just for the sake of giving us more information, would you be willing to compare your RoR app with a website I made a while ago. I got paid $500 to make http://www.solafcars.com (works in multiple languages, includes an admin panel, everything on the site is editable). I would assume your RoR app was much bigger, but let us know how it compares. I know I got underpaid though.
This might be the worst example of underpaid I've ever seen.
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Oh, I see what you mean. It probably took about 1000 hours total, but spanned over a period of a year. So maybe 20 hours per week. I was just learning Rails at the time, so it took a bit longer than it otherwise would have. I could probably make what I made in about 1 to 2 months tops now.
100000$ for two months work seems like a good price.
I've been trying to work this out for some months now, so apologies for piggy-backing onto this question: How do you actually achieve market prices? I'm aware that there are massive differences in how much you can charge based on location, but I still feel I'm hitting more resistance to my asking prices than I should be. As far as I can tell, it's not a quality issue. I've had repeat business from almost all my past…
Intermediate tactics:
* No matter how your SOW/MSA is structured, don't quote prices in terms of $/hour.
* When you get rate pushback, follow up with a bid for a smaller or more constrained project. Slip scope. Never slip your rate. You'll never get it back.
* Include a support retainer or annual/quarterly maintenance price, instead of giving that away for free.
Here are some of my stats - most projects I have worked on cost around 10-20k, average around 75-100 an hour, and take approximately 3 months of part time effort. I've done maybe 15 to 20 projects of this length/cost. I like projects of about this size because: I am not overwhelmed, it allows for nice quarterly vacations ~ a week each, the requirements aren't overly complicated, I have free time during the day, and the projects don't drag on forever. I freelance in Austin, my wife covers me on her insurance, I'm in my late 20's, and have done this for 3 years.
I have bid on a few 100k-size, year long projects, but have not been selected for any of them so far. So it goes.
I've been trying to work this out for some months now, so apologies for piggy-backing onto this question: How do you actually achieve market prices? I'm aware that there are massive differences in how much you can charge based on location, but I still feel I'm hitting more resistance to my asking prices than I should be. As far as I can tell, it's not a quality issue. I've had repeat business from almost all my past…
Short answer: by turning down projects that are below your threshold. Intermediate tactics: * No matter how your SOW/MSA is structured, don't quote prices in terms of $/hour. * When you get rate pushback, follow up with a bid for a smaller or more constrained project. Slip scope. Never slip your rate. You'll never get it back. * Include a support retainer or annual/quarterly maintenance price, instead of giving that…
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Most freelancers who can solo a multi-month .NET or RoR application make more than 75/hr.
how much per hour would you say that it's worth?