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Hourly Charge For Contract

Hi Experts,

I am self-employed, and mostly dealt with small clients, whom I charged around $35 per hour.

Now I am trying to break through Corporations, Municipalities (Toronto), provincial and federal contracts. What would be the normal hourly charge I should account for when pricing out projects?

The areas that I specialize in are PHP, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, JS, jQuery, (Classic ASP, MSSQL, VB 6 and Access.) - those in brackets are just for legacy support.

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John

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Scott Fell

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John

I would have zero work at $150 per hour around here. And I have been working for myself for 15 years. Lots of hours at a modest rate brings in a lot more money than no hours at a high rate

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Dave Baldwin

The second biggest problem with those 'people' is often the legal requirements they put in their contracts. Support and response time requirements are the two biggest things.

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