How much should I charge for a website?

Karan1best

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My friend's boss wants to hire me to make them a website. Since, I have not been into this business and have only been making websites for myself, I don't know how much should I charge. I'll be using wordpress platform and domain, hosting and plugins required will be funded by the company. What is the standard rate for this service?

 

blogzandstuff

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just work out your hourly rate and add a bit, that should do it. You can also charge to maintain the site for them like updating plugins etc.

 

T0NYS

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around $500 if you will be using a purchased wordpress theme , if you code it from scratch you can charge him up to $10k

 

Karan1best

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I'll be using wordpress themes. I don't think they would agree on hourly.

 

elfgirl

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How much do you want to get paid per hour?

 

nocare

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It totally depends on the scope of the project. If you're simply building out a theme and a few pages/templates, 500-1000 is a good low rate with the "friend" discount and shouldn't take more than 2 weeks to get it all perfect.

If you're building beautiful page/post control (advanced custom fields, visual composer, gravity forms, etc) in addition, definitely head up to that 5000 mark.

The last contract I saw, the client was being charged $120/h for dev hours. 30-60/h is more common though and it depends on your skill level for sure. I'd just request time & half/quarter and track your hours.

Good luck and half fun

 

hulksta

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Bout 350.... The answer is how much you can charge him, how thick he is.

 

LoftPower

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Karan1best said:

I'll be using wordpress themes. I don't think they would agree on hourly.

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If he wants it bad enough, then he would agree to paying you hourly. Just because you are friends does not mean that he can take you!

 

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nuhll

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i Would do it for like 300 usd and then monthly fee... like 50 usd?