How much to charge for a Website Contract

adam3223 · 29 Sep 2006 at 16:07

I'm a student and I'm getting a new job designing websites for a website design company.

I believe im gonna be paid per website. Which will involve PHP MySQL and some OsCommerce customisation.
I'm a zend certified engineer, but this will be my first IT job as I'm currently at uni.

I'm meeting the manager next week sometime.
How much would you expect to be paid per website?

Topgun · 29 Sep 2006 at 16:11

Depends on the project. Decide how much you expect to charge for an hour of your time. Multiply by the number of hours you estimate the the job to take.

Dj_Jestar · 29 Sep 2006 at 16:13

Work out your hourly rate, then when estimating judge how many hours + a moderate amount of lee-way for your final price.

adam3223 · 29 Sep 2006 at 16:20

Hmm,

I'm gonna be working from home in the evening/weekends, but appart from that i have no idea what is expected of me.

And a timeframe of 2 months cropped up :confused:

which i think is just for the 1st website, but that seems way too long.

Superficial · 29 Sep 2006 at 17:15

I have sent you a mail on a side matter. I hope that's ok.

cheers,

Gman · 29 Sep 2006 at 17:21

seems a strange way for someone to get paid when working for a company, could understand it if you were working say as a freelancer for a company and they pass you jobs where they've got too much work on etc. But if your going to be working full time for them and getting paid per website your going to be relying on them passing you work which at the end of the day isn't going to be their main priority as they don't have to pay your wages if you don't get any work.

Not sure on how much though as it can differ depending on the complexity of the web site and who your doing the website for as you'd charge say a big company such as BT or Sony a lot more than the local PC repair shop even if it were for the same sit

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xirokx · 29 Sep 2006 at 17:26

ive asked the question many times, never get a figure of an hourly rate tho...

i know its difficult because nobody knows the complexity of the task...

but some advice or somewhere to get the advice would be extremely handy

thanks

p.s. lemme know if u find anything please

Dj_Jestar · 29 Sep 2006 at 19:13

Hourly rate isn't judged on the complexity of the task, that's the point. It is based on your ability. You then charge however many hours it will take you to complete the task.

To give an idea, for someone who is very knowledgable of php, has a good understanding of OOP, MVC and Design Patterns can easily charge $100USDp/h.