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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