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    How do you charge for your work?

    Do you charge by the hour for a fixed number of hours?
    For the whole project with a single price, regardless of how long it takes?
    13
    By the hour, with fixed number of hours?
    30.77%
    4
    Fixed price for whole project, regardless of time?
    69.23%
    9

    The poll is expired.

    Regards
    Keith Hubert
    Alpha Guild Member
    London.
    KHDB Management Systems
    Skype = keith.hubert


    For your day-to-day Needs, you Need an Alpha Database!

    #2
    Re: How do you charge for your work?

    You missed the most common. Hourly with no restriction on number of hours.
    Steve Wood
    See my profile on IADN

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      #3
      Re: How do you charge for your work?

      I fall into the not charging anything category as I don't develop for others, rather my employer.
      Alpha Anywhere v12.4.6.5.2 Build 8867-5691 IIS v10.0 on Windows Server 2019 Std in Hyper-V

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        #4
        Re: How do you charge for your work?

        I am with you on that one Stephen
        Chad Brown

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          #5
          Re: How do you charge for your work?

          I am in the same category as Stephen.
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            #6
            Re: How do you charge for your work?

            Originally posted by Steve Wood View Post
            You missed the most common. Hourly with no restriction on number of hours.
            Exactly!
            Peter
            AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

            [email protected]
            https://www.alphabasesolutions.com


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              #7
              Re: How do you charge for your work?

              Some charge by the day
              Some charge by component like 100 per table, 100 for simple form, 100 for simple report, etc,
              Some sell their work off the shelf
              Some by hour and unlimited (as stated)

              Think first, Keith - but a good idea.
              Now what are you going to do with the results? Nobody really cares.
              Dave Mason
              [email protected]
              Skype is dave.mason46

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                #8
                Re: How do you charge for your work?

                what is the purpose of this survey ?

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                  #9
                  Re: How do you charge for your work?

                  Hourly. Except that I can't justify charging for every hour I put into a project (e.g., when I make a bonehead mistake, etc.). I have been known to charge a daily rate (discounted hourly rate) when a project is all I am working for days at a time. Note: it can be risky not having any money up front, the risk being that you'll get stiffed for a bunch of work. That's one reason one has to charge more than $10 per hour!

                  An aside: Is Dave Mason getting grouchy or what? Plus he forgot to list bartering, among other things.

                  Raymond Lyons

                  Edit: Oh wait, now I see it is a real poll with very limited choices. Now I don't get it either.

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                    #10
                    Re: How do you charge for your work?

                    Do you charge by the hour for a fixed number of hours?

                    e.g. 100 hours X $100.00/hour = $10,000 fixed fee


                    For the whole project with a single price, regardless of how long it takes?

                    e.g. $10,000 fixed fee


                    Are those different somehow?
                    Peter
                    AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

                    [email protected]
                    https://www.alphabasesolutions.com


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                      #11
                      Re: How do you charge for your work?

                      Peter,

                      It was not the amount I was interested in but the method used to price a project. Not everyone works the same way.

                      As a side issue, can you always guarantee that a project will will be completed within the number of hours quoted for? I know I cant.
                      Regards
                      Keith Hubert
                      Alpha Guild Member
                      London.
                      KHDB Management Systems
                      Skype = keith.hubert


                      For your day-to-day Needs, you Need an Alpha Database!

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                        #12
                        Re: How do you charge for your work?

                        How do you charge for your work?
                        By subscription, of course!

                        Seriously ... not so much the survey, but it's always interesting to see the mechanics and strategy of how others charge for their work.

                        I do mostly processed data, so a per-thousand records charge.

                        What is key is to always spell out what you are doing; what you are providing. If you don't do this, clients will have no idea of just how much work is involved in producing "x".

                        Also, what I have often found is that what is perceived as simple (in the client's mind) is actually complex to do AND vice versa ... what they think is difficult, is actually very simple!
                        Last edited by Paullm; 04-08-2013, 10:15 PM.

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                          #13
                          Re: How do you charge for your work?

                          Removed it
                          Chad Brown

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                            #14
                            Re: How do you charge for your work?

                            I personally have never had a prospective client with an open checkbook. For support problems yes, but new work not.
                            I scope the user operations as they would see it, itemise them all in a quote;
                            = per module (if there are some)
                            = for each functional item, I guess what I would reasonably expect to be worth/take x hrs and then to allow y (including all testing)
                            = use the mean between the totals of x and y.
                            = decide if the project feels worth that to the client, and depending on how much I need the job, drop the price.
                            Give one price per module (not a menu of each option costed separately)

                            The scope tells the client what elements are involved work-wise and what to expect, and serves as a basis for the contract.
                            I append a statement that additional callouts and hours for additional programming requested that are not listed, also for data repair if not caused by faulty progs, at whatever hourly rate.
                            and 10% annual maint/licence, to start from four to six months of installation handover. After which which time bugs will be considered as having been found and fixed.

                            I offer sometimes to provide a detailed spec, but at a cost of about 25% of the job extra, payable first.
                            Most medium size business are ok with a practical description of the scope of work, and can expect it to work that way.

                            Not much profit in that method but as time progresses collect library of re-usable code.

                            Keith - which option does that fit in?

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                              #15
                              Re: How do you charge for your work?

                              Originally posted by Keith Hubert View Post
                              It was not the amount I was interested in but the method used to price a project. Not everyone works the same way.
                              My point was - what's the difference? Either way you are in essence estimating your time and your fee.

                              As a side issue, can you always guarantee that a project will will be completed within the number of hours quoted for? I know I cant.
                              That's why Steve (and I) said hourly and "unlimited". Even if the client may not authorize unlimited hours. e.g. I estimate 100 hours. Client says "ok, let me know when you get to 75 before proceeding further".
                              Peter
                              AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

                              [email protected]
                              https://www.alphabasesolutions.com


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