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Edward Bryan Kene Morales
Edward Bryan Kene Morales
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Posted by Edward Bryan Kene Morales
Edward Bryan Kene Morales
7,374 Points

How much do you charge?

Hey guys!

I am just wondering how much you usually charge for a project? Say, a dashboard UI with 5 pages if you will do the design and front end coding (just HTML and CSS). Will appreciate to hear your insights.

luke hammer
luke hammer
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luke hammer
luke hammer
25,513 Points

you said dashboard so is this connecting to a back end model/database?

Edward Bryan Kene Morales
Edward Bryan Kene Morales
7,374 Points
Edward Bryan Kene Morales
Edward Bryan Kene Morales
7,374 Points

Yes. But I am not referring to a specific project here, the scenario above is just an example.

See, I want to specialize in creating the front end of dashboard UIs. So basically design and then code it in HTML and CSS, just the aesthetics then I can hand it to a developer so he can add functionality and make the thing actually work.

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geoffrey
geoffrey
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geoffrey
geoffrey
28,736 Points

That's really difficult to answer on my side at least. I'm not yet really professionnaly in the business, but I've lately read a good book called design is a job by Mike Monteiro. If I mention this book, It's because it deals with many aspects of the job of a webdesigner including the billing of a project, the offer.

And what he says is : You should charge as much as you can charge. As long as you are able to explain why you charge that price.

He adds as well that you'll be able to negociate a price that might be too high but not the opposite... You should take as well into consideration the client itself, you'll not charge a developer working alone as you would with a big company...