Yeah, I feel your pain, but more than you know - I did a fixed bid deal many years ago and quit keeping track of my hours when I reached the wonderful rate of $1/hour. Yep. $1/hour. Yes, that was 20 years ago, but I had much more work to do on a fixed bid job, so it went below that amount.... Rusty -----Original Message----- ... maintaining the existing application.  Last year I did a bit of calculation on how much time I spend on maintaining and improving the application versus my percentage of revenue compensation and I came to a rate of about $15/hour.