It doesn't take anyone a lot of time to find out rates. If you have a big project and you post on Drupal Paid Services forum asking people / companies to subcontract work to and ask them to put a hourly rate there, you are likely to get rates ranging from as low as $8/hr to $150/hr from a lot of companies and individual freelancers.<br>
<br>We try not to give out rates to leads that comes from gmail or yahoo account or via our get an estimate form with free email listed there. We also try and ensure that one of us speak with the customer first on phone(not skype,etc) to find out more details on his/her project. And if someone just calls in directly and asks the rate and the caller id is "Unknown",we just give a very high hourly rate.<br>
<br>In our case, we have a different rates for varios services like developer, architect, project manager, long-term dedicated resource, on-demand services, remote training, onsite training, documentation, SEO turning, Drupal advisory/consulting, hardening server security, and monthly retainer for infrastructure monitoring. Even when we bid on fixed price projects, we use combination of various rates.<br>
<br>I don't see anything illegal in sharing rates in global economy. There
are many clients who are looking for best price with offhshore teams
and many others looking for local consultants at higher rates and many
willing to pay premuim for "On Demand Service" as a retainer with 24x7
availability. <br>
<br>Roshan<br><a href="http://www.gloscon.com">http://www.gloscon.com</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><br><br clear="all"><br>