Hate to ask, but
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I've for the last 5 years or so used SU to help me design and build everything from cabinets to houses. It has served me well.
Recently, I've become involved in a major project, and have been asked to do one edit after another.
I'm curious as to what all of you charge. I know, I know...it's none of my business, right?
So if anyone would be so kind as to respond, please do it via PM.
Thanks,
Chris Ryan
Edit: Thank you all that have responded, I really appreciate you taking your time to provide me with answers. I am apparently pricing my work appropriately! (Although it would have been nice to find our everyone but me was getting $200 an hour wink)
Greatfully,
Chris
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Chris, for most of my clients I charge an hourly fee. Changes just make the number of hours go up. The clients know it up front and it tends to keep the number of changes down although I currently have one who doesn't seem to care. They've changed horses several times and keep paying me when I bill them. Figure out what you need to charge by the hour and keep track as you go along.
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@dave r said:
Chris, for most of my clients I charge an hourly fee. Changes just make the number of hours go up. The clients know it up front and it tends to keep the number of changes down although I currently have one who doesn't seem to care. They've changed horses several times and keep paying me when I bill them. Figure out what you need to charge by the hour and keep track as you go along.
+1 - whatever your hourly rate is.
Clients who know they're going to be charged an hourly fee for changes, revisions, etc tend to make fewer and more reasonable requests. This is especially true, in my opinion, of architects. Architects who aren't paying for revisions tend to use you as an unofficial assistant designer - asking you to do work that should be done on their end, in their office - trying out ideas, seeing how changes affect the design, that sort of thing.
Also, in my projects there are often situations that arise that have nothing to do with me that require me to re-draw. Some aspect or other of the larger overall design changes and the change requires a revision on my end.
Good luck - be strong.
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After being technical manger of some contracts with cost up to 3/4 billion dollars I have concluded anyone working on a contract should have some minimal training on what the spec is , the contract type ( cost, time and material, cost plus with share line etc. etc) and who has the authority to issue scope direction. I have had cases where I denied cost because the supplier did out of scope work with out proper direction and have had to default some for failure to perform which is not fun for both sides.
Government contracts are some of the worst but small can get you in a heap of trouble really fast also.
If you don't know a little contract law you should?
Ryan, I am not sure you can put a fixed cost on an echange order for a major project. As you know there are non recurring cost, recurring cost, materials and facility cost, training etc, etc. The best approach is to have good agreement on scope of new effort including schedules and then a method to rack and stack the cost so one does not miss a number of items. It seems to me the recurring cost can quickly be the driver.
Just some thoughts. -
$50 an hour for changes or a number that makes me feel good about the totality of work.
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