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Posted by Neredbojias on 08/09/07 02:24
Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:27:08
GMT Kevin Scholl scribed:
> Neredbojias wrote:
>> Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Wed, 08 Aug 2007
>> 22:11:54 GMT Romper scribed:
>>
>>> (The spec is massive, with lots of loose ends, none of us could
>>> possibly provide a fixed quote for the client, re: how much work the
>>> project will actually turn out to be. Its too big, there are too
>>> many loose ends. The only fair way for all of us would be an hourly
>>> rate.
>>>
>>> As I said, we always charge fixed prices. Its the way we have always
>>> worked, for the sole reason that 99% of the projects we get are new,
>>> and start from scratch).
>>>
>>> My question was: What does a middle of the road web dev company tend
>>> to charge in the USA :)
>>
>> Bottom line for top company - about $60-$65 per hour. Others will
>> surely demure, but notice I said "bottom line".
>
> Can you elaborate then on what you mean by "bottom line"?
>
> Most top companies for whom I've worked and dealt with price out their
> designers and developers easily into triple figures; $120 or $125 per
> hour is not all that uncommon.
If you have a strict t & m (time-and-material/services) contract, such a
quote _may_ be accepted by some companies with airs, but down at the
nitty-gritty level, no enterprise in its right mind would pay that open-
endedly for a website. Perhaps a not-to-exceed clause might get you such
figures, but you asked what the normal _real_ rate was, and I answered
according to my knowledge.
> Granted, those individuals may only see half of (if) that in their
> paychecks. Perhaps that's what you mean by "bottom line"...
"Bottom Line" doesn't have a precise definition and its details _can_
very from agreement to agreement, but it still is the real, effective
rate-of-income one can expect. Lots of people quote triple-figures, but
lots of people lie, too. Of all the maybe 2 dozen people I ever talked
to who visited Las Vegas and discussed their fortunes, only 1 actually
lost money. Yeah, right.
--
Neredbojias
Half lies are worth twice as much as whole lies.
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