Level 4
Interested too. Would be great to read some experienced Laravel freelancers' habits.
Oct 6, 2015
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Level 2
Charge for freelance work?
I was just wondering what people typically charge for freelance work using Laravel? I understand it depends on experience and the complexity of a project but what's a good starting point?
I have a potential client who Is looking to essentially allow members of their society to create online portfolio's of photography as well as including a forum for users to arrange and discuss meeting up etc.
The deal would also include server hosting, but given the nature of the amount of data each user would be looking to push up onto servers I'd also have to use AWS or something similar to deal with storage requirements which if using AWS scales as the data scales.
Just looking for general tips for how to go about quoting for jobs or if I should sell myself cheap so to gain experience and build a portfolio.
Level 14
Wow, there's a question!
Have you seen the brilliant survey that happens each year? http://ournameismud.co.uk/blog/article/2014-freelance-rates-results-what-people-charge/
You don't mention your experience but if you're just starting out then it's very easy to underestimate how long everything takes so watch out for that. I'd also suggest giving the client a ballpark figure before you drill into loads of detail or try and get a budget from the client. It's tempting to spend ages getting all the details and then hit the client with a price and they say "oh, I was only expecting to spend a 10% of that"
Good luck.
Level 2
Great suggestions, I'll certainly look at these and take these as a good base line. The tool was quite handy so now it's about estimating how many days/ hours of work it'll take and go from there.
Level 47
If it's updating a site because original dev jacked it up $55 hr. But I go by my quote. If I need to change because I under quote I have a new contract. It's not hour for hour either. I don't charge extra to learn so to speak. So a typical blog I don't charge the first client 50 hours, but 10 and each client there after 10.
On new projects $45 hr.
Keep in mind the client is paying for knowledge but also tid bits and features you have done to speed up development. So I may charge 200 hours but it takes me under a 150. Sometimes over 200 as I mentioned about building a feature I can reuse.
Level 61
Few days ago I've googled for average salary for Laravel developers in some European countries. Turns out that probably people are lying about there incomes on surveys.
When I asked for amount that was quite average on those surveys I've found, it turned out that I've asked for CEO's salary. And when you add taxes it went through the sky. Apparently I've asked for over 110euros per hour and when they explained to me I've lowered it to 35 without taxes.
Anyway I've barely made a deal after explaining that I didn't knew that taxes were so high and everything.
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