[richard_tech]

Originally Posted by fred65

Hello everyone, I've been working for a company as a graphic designer for 3 years. I just got engaged and i need extra cash. After graduating i started working full time as a G.Designer. Now i want to freelance, how much should i charge per hour or job?

Hi, it's very difficult to say that how much you will charge. I thing you should charge $10/hr because you are a beginner. You can increase it when you will have good rating on the site.

Good Luck!

[Pugsley]

Originally Posted by richard_tech

Hi, it's very difficult to say that how much you will charge. I thing you should charge $10/hr because you are a beginner. You can increase it when you will have good rating on the site.

Good Luck!

$10 an hour!!!! thats hardly anything. I'm still studying and i Charge £25- £35, thats what $50-70 . fair enough i don't do alot of freelance work but i still feel i'm worth more than £5 freaking pounds an hour.

[mx]

£25 -£35ph is pretty rich for a student without overheads, but hey, if you can get it why not!

[Frenelli]

you;re doing it all wrong. dont charge per hour. charge per job.
Give them a free estimate.

[lewis2.0]

Thats what i do, but i've also been caught out on doing that once in terms of under-estimating a job.

[Rexibit]

Some jobs are easy to estimate. However, when you get into client's scope creep, you have issues.

For instance, I charged my last client by the hour, but after I sent them the bill, and during the design, they wanted more and more done to the site. If I had set the cost, they would have gotten an amazing deal.

However, since I want more business from them, I have offered some free services and free consultation to help them out. This has actually lowered the overall earnings I would have gotten by about 20 percent, but it makes you seem more reasonable when you use an hourly rate.

When I do this again, I will have contracts all set out, and some reference points so that they will know what they are getting in to.

Overall, it is how you sell yourself, and present to the client.

[feha]

I think all this depends on project.
However it should be ok to use something to measure the amount of time it requires and add to it some price.
In this case i think is normal to compare hours/price ...
After you estimate the amount of time than you can give an offer of complete project cost.
This would make your client feel better and if you are effective enough , you get some "spare" time for your self.
When it comes "small" jobs "fixes" 1-3 hour work than is normal to use hourly rate.
I assume you got clear all points, required features before you give a total project price.
As some clients tend to ask for more features after they get "final" price than this may cost you more than expected.

my two cents

[thedesignerguy]

Originally Posted by fred65

Hello everyone, I've been working for a company as a graphic designer for 3 years. I just got engaged and i need extra cash. After graduating i started working full time as a G.Designer. Now i want to freelance, how much should i charge per hour or job?

Ypu can charge between 10 pounds to 30 pounds an hour as a freelancer and realistic goal should be between 15 pounds to 22 pounds an hour for starters over the net considering costs.

[d*d]

fuck me people this thread is from January, think the poster has moved on

[Dusteh]

should be between 15 pounds to 22 pounds

Why not £23?

[datahound]

£22.75