[consulting] Consultant Community

[John Saward]

Professionally I've been doing Drupal for about 6 years. Never not had work in my in-tray in that time.

Up till now when clients check out expected rates with me I often say rates vary a lot, in the range $30 to $200 per hour.

I situate myself somewhere around the mid-range, usually.

Now I can have the pleasure of broadening the range I convey, to: "$2 to $300 per hour".

On a rough calculation that might mean I need to increase my rates a bit to stay in the middle. :)

But.. holding off for now.....

We know one thing for sure from this discussion: "There is no indication of price fixing amongst Drupal developers" :)

John

On 23/08/2011, at 11:08 PM, Fred Jones wrote:

> I'm not here for 10 years, not even 5 really--I'm been hanging out for
> 3 or 4 maybe, so I don't know the history as others do, but aside from
> the exponential growth of the overall community, the developers
> community has also grown in numbers and in diversity. It was revealed
> at a Drupalcon last year (or two years ago) that there are dev shops
> charging up to $300 an hour. Now it has been revealed that there are
> also resources offering their services for $2 an hour.

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