Post by thread:How much($)to charge for development? -Reply

>>> James Musselman <spam_OUTjamesTakeThisOuTRADIXGROUP.COM> 11 December 1996 11:47 am >>> > It sounds like you don't write very complex programs, or > maybe you are the first programmer to achieve perfection, > or how do you define a bug? Do you work for companies that > never change their minds? A bug, in this case, is when a program doesn't do what the specification says it should. When a company changes it's mind(specification) then you hit them with charges for a change in scope. You use this to cover any time and expenses to make their change plus what ever you can get away with because it would cost them more to go elsewhere and start over. > You're very optimistic about most companies being so capable!! If real companies were capable they wouldn't look outside for expertise. FWIW My charge out rate is $80/hr. I don't get paid nearly that much but I do get three weeks paid vacation, holidays, over $100,000 worth of test equipment and development tools, A big fast computer, e-mail, reduced medical and dental bills, stock and I get to go home at night. :^) - -Mark