Questions tagged [price-per-hour]

Use this tag for questions about contracts where the invoiced value is based on the number of hours worked.

Use this tag for questions about contracts where the invoiced value is based on the number of hours worked.

A By-The-Hour (also known as ) is one in which you get paid for each hour worked.

Compare with a contract, whereby the client is billed for a fixed amount for the job, irrespective of the number of hours worked or expenses incurred.

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Should I charge the same amount while in skype call?

I'm doing Web development at a certain rate per hour. My client wants to chat with me almost every day and at the end of the month I end up with more than 20 hours of Skype call. Sometimes (not always) we do visual tweaks during a call, but other…
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How can I determine my rates as a freelance Wordpress developer?

I am a front-end and Wordpress developer and after a while of undercharging to attract customers, I am ready to raise my rate. As a freelancer, how can I determine what I should charge clients? What should I take into consideration?
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How smart is to disclose minimum hourly wage?

I can see that almost all, if not all, top freelancing service allow you to specify minimum hourly wage. But how really smart is to do that? Should not such price be exclusive and only for special customers or projects? The reason for this…
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What are the best practices that ensure the pay-per-hour freelancers are only paid for hours that they have actually worked?

As both new to entrepreneurship and freelancing, I have just come into a position where I need to start hiring freelancers and this confuses me. How do other employers deal with this? Are there tools/software for monitoring/control of the…
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Increase hourly rate in ongoing projects

I've been freelancing for a couple months now and since I was just starting out I set my hourly rate fairly low. (On the popular freelancing websites) This has indeed helped and got me my first few clients - all of them satisfied with my work - and…
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How to charge clients [the right way]?

I always have the doubt about how to charge clients. I offer internet marketing services (SEO services mainly) to small and medium business that make at least 1 million € in sales over a year. The average client of these types of business pays them…
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