Posted by Bob on 04/12/06 09:04

Chris wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a book(or any source) that gives good guidelines
> for web design/development pricing guidelines? I was reading the
> amazong reviews of the 'Graphic Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing &
> Ethical Guidelines' and it seems to be well respected but what I see
> from the reviews is that it's geared more toward print design and not
> the web, and that the web guidelines are a bit outdated.
> >
Here in my part of the rural West, the going at the big shop in town is
$60/hr for HTML, CSS, graphics (HCG) and $85 an hour for scripting. They
do tons of work.

Another place charges $50/hr for HTML and scripting and they get lots of
work.

Another place charges $40/hr for HCG and $60/hr for scripting, but they
hardly get any work.

Another place charges around $45/hr for HG but they do bad work.

There are cut rate places here in town that charge around $25/hr for HG
but their work is bad.

A friend in Florida who is excellent charges $75-85 an hour for HCGS and
gets tons of work, but he is top notch

A friend in Seattle said going rate for top notch work was $150/hr for
HCSG 1 yr ago but since then there is a lot of competition from offshore.

That should give you some ideas.

You can't really go wrong at $40/hr HCG and $60/hr scripting if you do
really good work. If you don't start lower.

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