css / html rate?
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- helpmeqbn
Say a friend of a friend needed help updating their business site and you did a couple hours work of uploading and html changes and modified the css a little. Simple work.
How much would you charge an hour for this?
- prophetone0
A really good mexican dinner w/ plenty of beer.
- helpmeqbn0
I don't know this person at all.
- Hombre_Lobo0
Would depend entirely on the friend. Are they are good friend, Would they do the same in return etc
- Not one of my closest friends. Just a friend of someone I know a little.helpmeqbn
- helpmeqbn0
I guess disregarding the relationship, how much would you charge to help someone with html / css for their small business?
- doesnotexist0
they're not real friends if they don't respect you enough to pay you. charge what you think you're worth, period.
- I was asking for advice. I don't know how much I'm worth for a tiny project like this.helpmeqbn
- dbloc0
just come up with a fair price
- monNom0
If you do design as a day job, double your current pay per hour. If you don't (and therefore you are pretty junior since you've never charged anyone before), $25-$30/hr?
I know people here will say that's too low, but if it takes you twice as long to do things since you're learning along the way, that's a fair wage for you and them.
- Aren't we all "learning along the way"?studderine
- yes, but a junior designer hasn't learned as much, makes more wrong turns, and takes longer = lower rate.monNom
- voiceof0
If you have already done the work, they are going to think it's too much no matter what you charge.
- ETM0
Charge what you would charge. Who cares about a friend's friend. If they are not your own friend, it shouldn't even be a question. Also, why did you not discuss a rate before hand?
- PonyBoy0
^you've never had a friend (or a relative) tell another friend that they got someone who can 'take care of them'?
- noneck0
Here's my friends & family plan:
I will consider doing the job for free, but I get to determine the scope, and they get what they get. I'll do my best for them, but I'm going to give them what I think they should have. There are no revisions, no suggestions, no "I've already got the logo designed, I just need you to draw it."
After that, they fall back onto my hourly rate that is about 75% of my regular rate, and I treat them (more or less) like a regular client.
A friend of a friend isn't a friend. If I didn't get invited to your birthday party, you pay regular rates.