>>I guess that will depend a lot on the region. Nobody over here will dare suggest $70 per hour, but in Canada, the rates are probably higher.
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>>Note that the question came from the Phillipines.
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>>>$70.00 per person per hour.
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>The hard part is not in deciding what to charge per hour, regardless where you are; it's in trying to estimate the number of hours that are going to be needed - as you pointed out originally. Clients want to have some idea what to budget for a project. $70.00 (or $10.00) per hour is meaningless in and of itself.
Yes, I think it requires years of practice in programming - and an in-depth analysis for the individual client - not to eliminate, but at least reduce, Hofstaeters Law. Or whatever it was called.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
