Hourly web development rate?

How much do you charge hourly for web development in the Toronto area?

Just curious to see if my rates are competitive, pushover or too high.

Originally Posted by Serveza

How much do you charge hourly for web development in the Toronto area?

Just curious to see if my rates are competitive, pushover or too high.

Well, when I'm working for friends to help out with their web needs, I charge 50 an hour.

Depends on what you mean by "development". I still do a little bit of design, markup, and some programming, and charge differently for different tasks and for different people.

The lowest I would go would be $45-50, which would be for straight design or HTML markup for a friend. The highest would be about $135, which is if I have to write some PHP, do some DB work, or anything else requiring more than just HTML.

You guys should outsource your work to me then. I'll charge you $30 an hour and you can go around and charge your customers $50+ and everyone will be happy

If you're interested PM me and I'll send you my credentials.

Originally Posted by deep

Depends on what you mean by "development". I still do a little bit of design, markup, and some programming, and charge differently for different tasks and for different people.

The lowest I would go would be $45-50, which would be for straight design or HTML markup for a friend. The highest would be about $135, which is if I have to write some PHP, do some DB work, or anything else requiring more than just HTML.

Agreed. My company contracts me out to other companies at $220 an hour. My dad's company contracts him out at $500 an hour. Insane, really.

Yeah, as soon as you start involving middlemen, things quickly spiral out of control. $500/hr for your dad though, that's pretty sweet. That's equivalent to junior partner billing at a Big 5 firm.

It's hard to say without knowing what your skill set is like. It'd help if you linked to some of your work

I work REALLY quick, so I don't usually charge by the hour.

Originally Posted by teknoluv

I work REALLY quick, so I don't usually charge by the hour.

That's what your girlfriend told me.

Seriously, charging by the hour only works for the very high end market. Telling your clients that you charge how much an hour is a joke, when they don't have a clue as to how many hours those jobs (should) take. I instead charge by the job.

Originally Posted by deep

That's what your girlfriend told me.

SNAP!

Yeah, as soon as you start involving middlemen, things quickly spiral out of control. $500/hr for your dad though, that's pretty sweet. That's equivalent to junior partner billing at a Big 5 firm.

Yeah, my dad is pretty damn good at what he does, and his company charges insane amounts from their clients. Bell is one of them...and if my dad works 40 hours a week (which he does) for Bell (which he does) at $500 an hour (which they charge), then they're billing Bell: 40 x 50 (assuming 2 weeks vacation) x 500 = $1 Million dollars....

Damn...too bad he's not getting that...

I thought i was making a lot for a high school student lol. 15/hour for PHP and MySQL related websites from Ottawa.

what kind of job do you guys do??? I have been making Calenders, appointments, project discussion boards, and online stores. However i dont really work on complex GUIs. Those who are 50+/hour, are u guys doing some complex desgining?

Originally Posted by ryan123

what kind of job do you guys do??? I have been making Calenders, appointments, project discussion boards, and online stores. However i dont really work on complex GUIs. Those who are 50+/hour, are u guys doing some complex desgining?

I am interested in seeing some portfolio here as well

damn. i make like 19/hr (35hrs/wk) doing web development... but my company only develops stuff for internal use... so maybe that affects how much i make... but um... requires html/javascript/jsp/jsf/servlets/struts/ejbs/portlets.. and probably other stuff i 4got

... but damn.. i never new web dev could make so much... for those people who get contracted for like $500/hr.. how much does your company ACTUALLY end up paying you?