[Tfug] ot: going rate for webdevelopers

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Andrew Ayre wrote:

> I would think that PHP and database work would be quite a bit higher
> than plain HTML/CSS. Many websites these days are pretty much software
> programs and customizing them can be a specialized task.
> 
> If I do a website for someone (not my main job, more of a hobby) then I
> quote a fixed price depending on what they want, rather than an hourly rate.
> 
> I would say $15/hr is very low for anything more sophisticated than
> simple HTML, but I could be mistaken...

Yes, it is way low. Ten years ago I charged between $25 to $35 per hour 
for plain HTML and web design. And over past few years for database work, 
web server administration, and PHP (or other web coding) development work 
from $45/hour to $75/hour to $100/hour (depending on the size of job or 
prepay or not).

  Jeremy C. Reed

> christopher floess wrote:
> > Hi everyone, one of my friends is working on a research proposal.
> > One aspect of it is going to involve some web development and he
> > needs to include the cost of someone doing this in the
> > proposal. Can any one give me an idea of how much they go for
> > these days. It will be some pretty simple stuff. He said mostly html
> > some php stuff, and a some database stuff. I remember some one
> > on this list was selling their services for 15/hr. Is that about right,
> > low, high?