How much you pay for custom PHP work?
 

Hello guys,

I've been working as a freelance PHP developer for a while and I found that things are not working the way I imagined.

I really want to improve my results, but the first thing that I want to know is how much people are usually paying for custom PHP code work?

Thank you all,
Andrew

I have never paid by the hour but had quotes on projects. Price range 25 - 300 USD.

I've only done a few PHP work but since I freelance I don't set my own prices and I don't have an hourly rate. I don't ask for payment unless my client is satisfied with the work. Basically, after I'm done I just ask my client to send me whatever amount he/she feels comfortable paying. I'd say I've gotten from 20 ~ 100 bucks to fix something or add whatever features.

About the same from what I've seen.. $20 - $200 for different projects.

Damn I think I need to hire you :D

I was actually wondering about bigger projects. Projects that require at least a month of code work. Let's say at least 150 hours.

-- Andrew

I get all mine done at http://www.cheapestadultscripts.com/
Kaktusan does great work

I found over the years that working for clients is seldom worth the trouble. After agreeing a price most want other stuff done for free on the grounds that "it was obvious I needed that".

So you either specify it all ( which they don't want to pay you to do ) or they specify it all ( which they don't know how to do ).

I do a few small jobs now and then for friends gratis ( they owe me a favour ), and some scripts for my own use that I later release as freeware if they are generally useful, but that's it. I find people expect programmers to work for nothing as "software should be free". Try getting a model and photographer to do you a shoot for free....

Maybe better spend your time writing packages scripts that have a general use, but even so they don't sell for more than a few $, so you need to hit on something that a lot of people need and are willing to pay for, or code up your own projects and websites and use your skills that way.

I have a full time PHP programmer on staff. Makes it much easier when they are nearby and need a beating!

If you look at the freelancer bid for jobs type sites most seem to be charging $10-15/hr with those in the US charging $30-45/hr. I think if you want to get paid what youre worth then you should really look in to those types of sites because they tend to draw a more mainstream crowd that understand that coders need to eat too ;). It's still really competitive but if you build up a reputation I'm sure you could be making a decent living after a while. Another thing you could be doing, like someone else said, is writing scripts that a lot of people will want. TGP/LL/Traffic trading scripts etc. It's a competetive market but there's plenty of room for improvement.

Hey ClickBuster
Here's a thought contact Kaktus and bounce your questions off of him, those of us that have used his services will stick with him as long as he us willing to write code.
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I dont know how much of it he had to change in the code but there were about 10 things I wanted changed and in the end it really is a differant script then what he is offering for sale
I paid $40 for the script and then $75.00 to change it. I felt as tho he has done so much work just on the tweeking end that I'm sending him another $100 today cause i just felt he undercut his price and really did not know how much work was going to be involved. Took him about 1 week to get the base set, then it was tweeking and that was about 1 more week.