How much should I charge for a website?
November 30th 2010
I have been making websites for a while and have recently actually started a business. I was to come up with a good pricing system. I want it to be “cheap” compared to other businesses. I do graphic design, coding (html, php, css, javascript, etc.), and all the stuff. I think i know what I am doing but I just don’t know what a good pricing system would be. What do you think?
System I came up with:
Graphic Design, Template Development, Homepage – $300
Pages 2-10 – $50/each
After 10th page – $75/hour
Is that any good?
I currently have a client (a speedway) they want 9 pages including homepage. They also possibly want a contact form, newsletter, CMS (Content Management System) and I plan to charge more for those obviously.
December 2nd, 2010 at 5:07 pm
How did you come up with the pricing system? If you are going to do this as a business, then your pricing structure has to change. Your current client has given you a project that may take you up to 40+ hours to complete. You could get it all done and find out that what you actually earned was $1.50 per hour.
Check online with other webmasters on what their rates are for projects because I think this is really low for the amount of work this client wants.
Quick and dirty way to set your prices? Take your annual expenses (including business taxes, income taxes on your earnings and any products/services/software you’ll need for your business). Now add to that your living expenses (rent, food, clothes/laundry, car maintenance, utilities, etc.). See that number? Divide it by 2,080. That will give you a rough hourly rate for your time. It’s not perfect by any means, but it will get you closer to what you need to charge for your time than winging it.
Example:
Income from your job = $30,000 net a year. Divide by 2,080 = $14.43 net per hour. But what about health insurance, transportation to and from, etc. It makes a difference as an employee…now think about it as a business? Can you live on $14.43 an hour and pay taxes too?
Check on some of the webmaster forums before you quote anyone else your current prices.
December 4th, 2010 at 11:31 pm
Hi
I personaly found its not worth designing yourself, as there are many companies on the internet who offer this service at quite cheap rates. Best thing would be to use one of the companies to do the website but you charge a little extra to your client.
For example at they charge $20 per month to do a website with hosting unlimited pages and updates and everything seems to be included in it. You could ask them to do it for you and you charge your customer $30 instead. Or you can charge the client $300 setup fee. Virgin websites don’t charge a setup fee.
if you are in the UK then try
regards,
babar