Your Rates?
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- -kappa-
How do you structure your rates?
Do you have various rates for your varied work?
I.e.
$X - Design &
$Y for IllustrationOr do you have a standand rates that covers it all?
- function820
i use one standard rate, with a minimum amount on small jobs
- pepe0
for illustrations i get about 500 an illustration, 1k for a full page and around 2 for a spread.,.... give or take
- function820
but what do you base it on? time and/or complexity?
- -kappa-0
You you charge by the page rather than by the hour?
- j_red0
A = basic hourly rate for how confident i feel about getting it done.
B = how cool/lame the job is, and whether it can be used as a portfolio piece.
A*B+(a*10) then adjust to fit.
- function820
I personally think a flat rate for all clients is the best practice... you might want to charge different rates for say, programming hours and design hours, but i think from client to client these should remain the same (unless of course you raise the rates across the board)
- fate0
I just had someone want me to make a $100 design for a website. Oh, and of course I won't get paid until the client approves it.
Fuckers.
- fate0
You know what angers me even more? He supposedly found someone to agree to those terms and churn out some shit site tonight.
- kezza_20
charge by the week, then divide back from there
- ribit0
It's all hours in the end isnt it? (with adjustment for how much fun you have)
- auricom0
one rate for all and i add on an extra hours fee if they are assholes. got to get something for all that frustration, haha.
- scarabin0
i generally sharge 25 an hour for product/grunt work and 35-45 for design.
- function820
fate - i know the feeling, and the people who want it for $100 bitch the most too. I started having a minium because of these people, because they're always the ones who expect everything for nothing, and try to get you to do way more work then agreed on (and signed on). i find a minium hour (say minimum 5 hrs for example) deters the people who expect everything for $100... however theres always someone who will do the work for pennies, which makes getting work even harder :/
- scarabin0
yeah, i've noticed that it's the people you give deals to that always want the most revisions and get all demanding 'n' shit.
the people you charge full price for are always much cooler to work with in my experience.
- function820
thats because they respect you. the people you give deals to dont respect, so they walk all over you
- pepe0
i charge per project when i can because most of the time it goes pretty quick. The times where it really drags out far outdoes the times when it doesnt.
- derek30
right on point..
thats because they respect you. the people you give deals to dont respect, so they walk all over you
function82
(oct 27 04, 18:57)
- jamesk6170
Once I had a client who asked me to make his product demo. So I did it and he loved it. After that, he asked me to make some DVDs for him, like 30 dvds, so I had to burn all of them on my machine and labeled all by myself. Now I have to burn 20 more. and I told him it will cost $190 dallors. I basically have to spend about half of that buying the stuff include ink and cases. And finally he's not happy about the price even though I was trying not to charge my hourly rate. I gotta babysit all the disks being burned. Damn!
I don't know what the H I'm trying to say, but it's just frustrating to deal with a client who doesn't have any idea what it takes or how these things are done. I guess, sometimes you shouldn't take that kind of cheap job that's not worth while.
Applogize for the long dumn story. Let's just peace out. Damn it, still sound dumn.
- function820
hes got you whipped now... CONTRACTS they save lives
- derek30
holy shit james!
i woulda charged wayyy more. or walked...