I have not done any freelance work in a long time... maybe 10 years.  At 
that point I was charging $75 an hour.  Most who contacted me wanted to 
pay me much less.  I was at capacity at $75/hr in 2008.  Today I would 
charge over $125/hr.  I am a PHP developer.

I have a friend who owns a data center and provides hosting services.  
For Linux admin and programming he charges $130 an hour.

Made friends with a freelance WordPress developer and he told me he 
charges $250/hr.

There are a lot of factors that go into choosing a rate.  Sometimes it 
is just nice to take on a few side projects for cheep to retire debt 
etc.

When I started freelancing in 2008 I decided $75/hr was reasonable 
because of the haste factor.

I wrote an article about this several years ago  :  
https://www.phpprogrammer.org/freelance-php-developer-hourly-rate

One key point is you need to factor in you administrative time as a cost 
of doing business.

I'd be interested in any feedback on my article.

Keith



On 2023-03-16 10:42, Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> To all those who have done contracted technology consulting ... what
> do you charge?
> 
> I've been doing work on the side for a local HVAC company, largely
> technology administration stuff ... simple stuff ... setup website
> hosting, DNS, setup laptops when they need ... nothing terribly hard
> or time consuming.
> 
> Recently I've grown frustrated with all the manual steps involved with
> setting up a new user account ... Google/M365/LastPass/Adobe ... so I
> decided to dig in for a bit and enable domain federation (SAML/SSO) on
> them.
> 
> To my utter delight, it worked and was fast easier to set up than I
> initially thought.
> 
> Now, when i create a new account in Google, an account will be
> automatically provisioned in both LastPass and M365, hooray! In going
> to queen on the same for Adobe DC later today.
> 
> My question is ... what do I charge for this? What's reasonable? I'm
> already fairly technically inclined, so it wasn't that difficult for
> me to read the instructions and follow along ... but there was a fair
> bit of PowerShell scripting required on the M365 part, as that work
> could only be done with PowerShell using the AzureAD & MSOnline
> modules.
> 
> I appreciate your input, as this level of work for a customer is a
> first for me.
> 
> Thanks,
> Alexander
> 
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