Budget hourly rates

Most programmers don't a preset price by the job, they charge by the hour or based off the hour like I do. We should have hourly rates under $30/hr put in budget.

Village,

While I agree that $30/hr these days is pretty cheap for some of our skills, the crowd over here at TF rarely will pay that much. I would say budget for them would be around $20/hr.

Best Regards,
Patrick

PS: You won't find me accepting many budget offers at $20/hr :\

I agree with Patrick. I know localhost sells his services for $10 per hour.

The thing is, budget means different things to different people. The average person coming here looking to hire a 'budget' coder will probably be looking more towards that $10 figure than $30, the latter still being 'budget' in the grander scheme of things but not really here at TF.

In the end it's up to the staff to decide, but $10/hour is less than minimum wage in the UK (depending on age).

We have the budget forums to help bring TF out of the budget buy category, setting budget to a realistic hourly rate is logical.

I'd have to disagree with your claims about most people charging per hour. I can't remember the last time I charged per hour. Nearly all of my clients expect a set number before starting.

Same here, but I still give a quote based upon how many hours.

Horrible idea. USD $30 is a pittance in the UK. But villiage you think that is above budget? hmmm, guess Salathe was right "The thing is, budget means different things to different people."

Originally Posted by CreativeLogic I'd have to disagree with your claims about most people charging per hour. I can't remember the last time I charged per hour. Nearly all of my clients expect a set number before starting.

By the hour includes what I do, I price by the project based off the hour. How much per hour you charge represents if you are budget or not. People who charge $15/hr are budget programmers. If $30 an hour is too low, im fine with that.

Can we just divide bad from good coders? =p