Programmers - How much do you charge ?

[Trev]

Originally Posted by sarettah

Nothing crazy about it... Simple economics.

You come to me and say I want you to build such and such system that will make me a million bucks a year.

I build the system for you in 100 hours at $250.00 per hour. You have now invested $25,000.00

You turn on the system and run it for the year and you now have a million bucks that you have only invested $25,000.00 to get. In other words, my programming garnered a profit for you of 400% or so and on top of that, your investment of $25,000 was recouped in the first 9 days after you turned my system on.

I think a system like that is well worth paying me $250.00 an hour for.......

Sorry but even with a guarantee of making a mil in the first hour, I wouldn't pay $250 ph for a programmer, not when I can pay $50!