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Apparently people will happily pay $100/hr for 3 hours of work, but not $300/hr for 1 of work from a more experienced person.
They are renting our attention. My current client operates under that assumption that I maybe work four hours a day and bill for eight. In other words...he is realistic. He is surrounded by contractors.
> Am I being too honest, and should I continue billing for the fifteen minutes I go off reading HN, having lunch, or any other short break?
Salaried workers (...well at least in EU) are entitled to paid breaks, I just treat it same
It would maybe be different if it was some very low hours thing, but if I'm working 2-3+ hours for same client a day, well, in actual job (as per my country laws) it's 15 minute paid break + 5min for every hour of computer work.
Dev might actually be 20% of your overall billable time.
Anyone billing by the project? Maybe a two step billing procedure, once for a product discovery and a second for the final estimated project complexity.a0
I bill by the hour, not the minute. If I work 10 mins on something and do nothing for the other 50, you are billed an hour. Frankly, this is how most clients have actually wanted it. They think in hours (or days) not some subdivision of them. And yes, thinking about work is the same as doing the work. It's all billable time. As far as your rate, I always bill as high as I can without pushback. Where is that level? Yo…
Seems surprising to me. Rounding to 15 minutes, sure, but 60 seems surprising. Can more people chime in?
I bill by the hour, not the minute. If I work 10 mins on something and do nothing for the other 50, you are billed an hour. Frankly, this is how most clients have actually wanted it. They think in hours (or days) not some subdivision of them. And yes, thinking about work is the same as doing the work. It's all billable time. As far as your rate, I always bill as high as I can without pushback. Where is that level? Yo…
> I bill by the hour, not the minute. If I work 10 mins on something and do nothing for the other 50, you are billed an hour. I deal with a lot of contractors. To be clear: If I asked for a single task that takes 5 minutes and they bill me an hour for it, that's 100% fine in my book. Context switching, recording, billing, etc. aren't free. The difference between a 60-minute bill and a 10-minute bill is nothing. Let's…
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Re 5) you must be careful with the gifts as that may be misconstrued as bribery or a kickback. A card should be fine, but a bottle of Champagne rather won't be.
Are you in the public sector is this a common issue in your industry? I ask because gifts and emoluments are common in my industry (manufacturing) with contracted clients in the private sector.
Not even working in any industry that is usually under scrutiny for bribes (finance, defence, pharma, etc.).
ie. Instead of billing $500 for a "Basic Website", I'd bill 10 x $50/hr for "Web Consulting".