Re: FN-FORUM: Is this fair? I cant decide...

date posted 1st August 2007 19:17

On Wednesday 01 August 2007 19:50:31 Fiaz Khan wrote:

> I did in fact, this morning, get a small piece of work that i wasnt
> going to have time to do so i asked him to quote for it. He came back
> with rates that you would expect from a developer with years of
> experience and a fairly substantial portfolio, neither of which he had.

What sort of work, what sort of rates?

> It got me thinking, is it fair for people starting out to be charging
> rates that more experienced developers charge? My gut feeling is to say
> no, its not fair, its taken me a long time and a lot of hard graft/late
> nights to get to a point where i can charge such rates, so to have
> someone just "start up" charge the same seems unfair.. or am i being a
> grumpy old git?

I don't think "fair" comes in to it. You charge more either because you can
do stuff that other people can't, or because you can do it more quickly.

Anyway, as an experienced developer you should have a fair idea how
long it would take you to do it and hence what you would charge the
client. So offer your potential subcontractor a percentage of that to
do the work.