# How much would **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [January 16, 2002, 11:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-much-would/3570 "2002-01-16T23:02:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2002, 11:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-much-would/3570/1 "2002-01-16T23:02:44Z")
How much is appropiate to charge for a website similar to this [www.kennylattimore.com/index2.htm](http://www.kennylattimore.com/index2.htm) or any other flash based website I am using photoshop/flash and frontpage - not to mention researching web hosting companies and pretty much doing everything for this client. She knows nothing about computers whatsoever - Anyone out there that has completed a website for a client please respond - any response will give me a general idea - no hourly rates in this case, just a flat rate - thanks in advance all P.S. If I charged her hourly she would have to pay in the thousands big time šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2002, 11:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-much-would/3570/2 "2002-01-16T23:13:58Z")
No less than $500ā€¦it deserves a good amount of money! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2002, 12:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-much-would/3570/3 "2002-01-17T00:33:19Z")
I agreeā€¦ of course it depends on total pages involved. Iā€™d say closer to $800+ it would also depend upon who I was working for. A corp will pay more for services than a mom and popā€¦ and Iā€™d charge em more even if they didnā€™t. For the record, my girl has 4 years education, and 6 years in the field. She would charge 40-50 dollars an hour for this kind of work. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2002, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-much-would/3570/4 "2002-01-18T16:17:20Z")
anyone else with clients out there? Iā€™m just trying to come to a conclusion on price Thanks Flashers ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2002, 7:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-much-would/3570/5 "2002-01-18T19:38:18Z")
okay while on the subjectā€¦ how much would you expect sum1 to pay for thisā€¦ [www.starpromo.8m.com/anotherpromo.html](http://www.starpromo.8m.com/anotherpromo.html) you gotta imagine that it was complete (all the links work) and all the pages are too a similar qualityā€¦ how much would ya say? hhmm šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2002, 5:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-much-would/3570/6 "2002-01-19T05:48:35Z")
Again, depends upon the number of pages. Everything has to do with how much trouble it is to set up/how hard it is to find someone with the skillz. A) are there e-commerce capabilities? Add at least $500 B) are there other back end Perl, PHP, XML, scripts, and or CGI interfaces? Add at least $500 C) How many pages are there? How different are they from each other. i.e. is it just a template used over and over, or does each page have to be produced from scratch? I donā€™t even know how much to add for that. Thatā€™s why you should be working for an hourly rate and not on a completed project basis. Youā€™ll end up screwing yourself out of money if you run into any problems at allā€¦ and you will. I am just taking an educated guess here mind you. Iā€™ve never actually charged for my work, except in a few cases where my girl took care of the contract part of it. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2002, 8:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-much-would/3570/7 "2002-01-19T08:14:07Z")
ok, how long will it take you? a week? letā€™s say a week, which ihmo is extremely unlikely. lets say you get a project every week. thatā€™s 26k a year. is that the salary you want? say you run into a few hitches and the site takes you closer to a month. now your annual salary is $6000, below the poverty line. now imagine youā€™re a web company, you have office rent, phone, internet, hydro, maybe even a few employeesā€¦ now youā€™re in massive debt. $500 may seem like a lot but itā€™s not. a web shop could charge 20k for a site like that (could is an important word in that sentence). youā€™re not a web shop (i assume since youā€™re asking about $ ; ), so you canā€™t charge that, but do you want to live on $6000 a year? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2002, 8:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-much-would/3570/8 "2002-01-19T08:19:24Z")
Thanks supraā€¦ I knew I was low balling those figures. Now that you break it down that way, itā€™s easy to see why $500 is far too low to get. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2002, 9:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-much-would/3570/9 "2002-01-19T09:52:40Z")
i know ya want talkin bout Starpromo\* site when ya were talkin about tha 20k but if someone payed 6k for one of my sites id be over the moonā€¦ but then again im only 16ā€¦ i got another question. you read about all these people who are like 12 and stuff makeing a web site and becomeing a multi-million dollar biusnessā€¦ who in the holy hell do they do that? how do they get money from there site? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2002, 12:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-much-would/3570/10 "2002-01-19T12:36:49Z")
There smart and are extremely lucky bass-turdsā€™ May be you should go and try asking them, they would know better than any one of us in here. Assuming no one is here is a multimillionaire?, because Iā€™m not ā˜¹ Ahh well, i still got lost of time for that to happen. Muahahahaha \>=) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2002, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-much-would/3570/11 "2002-01-19T17:41:46Z")
another you gotta remember is that to this companies $3000 for a site is next to nothing. they are used to spending thousands of dollars just on office supplies every month if you think about it thats actually very cheap considering they are ā€œinvestingā€ the money in the site. Homestly, if i had a big client i would charge $4,000 and get a few friends to help me out. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2002, 12:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-much-would/3570/12 "2002-01-21T00:06:15Z")
How much would a site like that go for? just throw in a dot com and check it out. Is this, what, a 15-20 thousand dollar site? Anybody gotta clue? pj ---
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No less than $3000 for that site. If there is a lot of back-end stuff (more than a simple feedback form), then between 3-5k, maybe more it depends on the amout of programming. That is a reasonable price for a site like that and is enough to let you turn a profit. Flash should be charged more than regular html and like someone said, large companies you might charge more than small businesses. Iā€™m charging $30/hour for small, local businesses and $50/hour for large companies here in Seattle, WA. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2002, 5:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-much-would/3570/14 "2002-01-21T05:13:10Z")
Thats all? I am a little surprised. How long you reckon it would take you to make such a site? pj ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2002, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-much-would/3570/15 "2002-01-21T18:44:09Z")
PJ, Are you asking how much to charge for [Ultrashock.com](http://Ultrashock.com) or for the site you linked to in your first post? Iā€™m talking about the site you posted about. The Kenny singer/songwriter one. I think 3k is a good place to start for the pricing. Vary it according to the amount of time and work you actually put into it. Iā€™ve built two sites for clients so Iā€™m not in the 20k range yet. I think it might take around 200 hours to build a site like Kennyā€™s. Hope this makes sense. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2002, 7:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-much-would/3570/16 "2002-01-21T19:48:51Z")
I was talking about [ultrashock.com](http://ultrashock.com). I am not sure about the song one, didnā€™t see it. Also if yo doā€™t mind letting me browse the sites you have made. That is a great motivator you know, to know I ca make greatmoney doing something I love. pj