Going contract Rate

mystrymaster

Alrigfht all I was asked to get a proposal together for a client by the ebd of the week and I was curious about going rate right now.

This contract would require everything online built from scratch to interface with an offline filemaker db via exports and imports. There needs to be a couple of levels of security.

What would going rate in the northeast be for a contract position like this hourly?

Thanks

mystrymaster

I hate when people do this but....

No one here contracts? can anyone at least point me in the right direction to find this info out?

TheIceman5

northeast fo what?

mystrymaster

sorry Northeast States - I know rates are higher in the NY and SF areas

spstieng

This contract would require everything online built from scratch to interface with an offline filemaker db via exports and imports. There needs to be a couple of levels of security.

I'm not quite sure what you are aiming for. Are going to build a website from scratch using PHP?
I'm no professional, but all the theory I've been thought, is that you don't give a client hourly rates!!!

You need to talk to you client and find out what they really wants. Write down a System Requirement Specification (SRS) and go through that. Find out the functionall and non-functionall requirements, find out how difficult it would be to design / implement them, then calculate how long it will take you to create it. The ngive them a proposal for the whole project.

I don't know how u do it in the states, but here on the other side, we do it a bit differently :-)

Good luck.

mystrymaster

I do most of my generic contracts at hourly rates - problem is I have been doing so many things fgor people I know and giving breaks that I don't know how far off I am.

I am giving hourly because I have fear of creeping functionality with the project and would like to protect myswelf without having to renegotiate everytime they say hey can we add this or how about this.

And it would be more of an admisitrative website then a consumer level site

spstieng

Ah! But that's where the fun comes in. Scope creep is a nasty thing. But you have to love it when the customer comes - AFTER the SRS have been signed - and asks you to implement this extra function. Sure you say, it will only take this much time and this much extra $$$$ :-)

I've just started coding webpags in PHP - and it's a LOT more time consuming than I first thought. I'm not sure if that is because I'm new to PHP or it is of the fact that coding webpages using PHP DOES take longer time.