# How much should i charge for this work?

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**Created:** [September 25, 2006, 3:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-much-should-i-charge-for-this-work/201780 "2006-09-25T03:14:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marbles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Marbles](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Marbles)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 3:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-much-should-i-charge-for-this-work/201780/1 "2006-09-25T03:14:14Z")

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As some of you may know, i’m currently working for a real estate company that isn’t paying me enough to do web design, graphic/print design, clerical work and database management.

However, I talked it over with them and they agreed that any work i do for them will be without any of my design input, and will just be me creating new pages for their website and such.

In the interest of improving their site, i suggested a flash slideshow and a different photo gallery.

I created a sample page(the first one is always free ;)) of something minor they could do to improve the look of their site, while decreasing the filesize of their already heavy .mov slideshow.

[here’s the flash slideshow(i know the music isnt working, it’s a sample page)](http://ncmountainland.net/debord342/debord342.html)

[here’s their old one](http://ncmountainland.net/Web%20movies/9%20Rutherford%20189.mov)

[here’s the new photo gallery](http://ncmountainland.net/debord342p2.shtml)

now, my question to all of you is… what should i charge them? i was thinking of asking $100 for both, per page. is that too steep? it’s incredibly easy to make the slideshow(thanks kirupa:)), XML + music. but the photos with the “torn” edges is a bit time consuming since i have to dropshadow each photo.

is $100 too much? or should i ask for hourly $50/hr to do the work.

if my question isn’t clear enough, let me know.

Marbles