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Re: Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?

#11

$2k per day. hourly always invites discussions, for example how are phone calls with mixed topics billed?

I'm considering switching from hourly to a daily model.

Tracking hours is becoming too granular for the work I'm doing. This includes research and development; each of which I find myself "guessing" the hours a lot of the time.

Re: Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?

#12

I specialize in the ability to competently and fully build from the ground up your whole business from design, development, system administration, deployments, testing, seo and other stuff as a single person. My rate is $10,000/week pre-paid monthly.

How do you usually find clients?

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#13

Southeast USA. $100/hr for everything (meetings, development work, bug fixes, ...). Took me a while to be honest with myself and finally charge for all of my time. Maybe it's confidence? Never had an issue from a client with this arrangement.

I tell clients that identifying the problem is at least 50% of the work, and that includes meetings. Well, I call them "work sessions", and I don't think it's an euphemism.

And then they can pay 100 hours for a narrow scope of perfect, or they can pay 20 hours and iterate until it's good enough (bugfixes).

Re: Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?

#15

I specialize in the ability to competently and fully build from the ground up your whole business from design, development, system administration, deployments, testing, seo and other stuff as a single person. My rate is $10,000/week pre-paid monthly.

This is a great rate. I’d love to know how you find clients willing to pay this amount. Most people I’ve come across that need a new site/app built have extremely low budgets. Like $10,000…total for an app. Certainly not $10,000 for a week.

Re: Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?

#17
I'm a cyber security specialist (in web application security) with a few certifications and 10+ years of experience.

I charge usually $350 an hour unless it's something I estimate will require the help of an outsider to which I may go as high at $1k an hour.

Answering everyone asking how we find clients - I love public speaking and so I try to do as much as I can. 80% of my clients saw me speak, the other 20% come from word to mouth. Highly recommend if you have the ability.

Re: Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?

#18

I specialize in the ability to competently and fully build from the ground up your whole business from design, development, system administration, deployments, testing, seo and other stuff as a single person. My rate is $10,000/week pre-paid monthly.

you seem to be on the low side, i do 4000p/day not less

Re: Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate?

#19
post #13

Southeast USA. $100/hr for everything (meetings, development work, bug fixes, ...). Took me a while to be honest with myself and finally charge for all of my time. Maybe it's confidence? Never had an issue from a client with this arrangement.

I tell clients that identifying the problem is at least 50% of the work, and that includes meetings. Well, I call them "work sessions", and I don't think it's an euphemism. And then they can pay 100 hours for a narrow scope of perfect, or they can pay 20 hours and iterate until it's good enough (bugfixes).

Is it controversial that meetings should count as billable time? I mean, it’s not like you’re there because you just really like meetings!
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