[ad_1]
I want to know the general average for people and your experience regarding pricing. I am getting paid 300 usd for a 4 page website. Is it enough? Could I request more for this? or is it already fair? The client had a design I needed to copy from scratch through elementor.
[ad_2]
After decades in IT, I long ago decided that that EVERYONE thinks their requests are “simple”. And they have almost no understanding of what goes into making things such as web pages.
So …
You need to decide what your rate is. How many hours will it take you to complete this task, and what is your time worth. No one can tell you that. Someone’s cousin could do it for free, or an agency could charge 10k+.
When it’s all said and done, what would you be happy getting paid for this work? What would make you say, “whoa that’s a lot!” and what would make you say, “ugh that’s not enough.” You should probably fall in the middle.
Think about the value of your time. Estimate how many hours you will spend on the project and multiply that by what you want to charge per hour.
Easier said than done; estimating and bidding on projects is often a hard skill to learn and experience with your own workflow speed is critical. A semi-serious bit that I’ve often heard is, make your estimate, bump it to the next unit of time, then double it. If you think it will take 3 days, bump that to weeks and double it, i.e., six weeks.
The reason for that is that most projects take time for revisions, meetings, and unexpected complications. Nothing ever goes as planned and you need to budget for that.
I can knock out a simple five page website from scratch in an afternoon – even quicker if I use WordPress and the client has already supplied text I can copy/paste and images in a usable format. However…. aside from a few personal projects… I’ve never completed a website in under four days and most are two to three weeks (for the little ones; I’ve had larger ones that take over a year due to shifting goal posts).
Also factor in your cost of living. I live in the US and charge $80 to $100 per hour while living in the mid-west. I would charge more if I lived on one of the coasts. I know people in Eastern Europe and Asia that could live for a month from $300 and it’s a great price for them.
Don’t be afraid to walk away from work if the client can’t make it worth your time. I went through a period where I took every project that I could and ended up with over a dozen open design projects at the same time. I spent more time in meetings than coding and every project fell behind and delivered late. It’s better to get 3 to 5 good clients that pay well than a bunch of cheap clients that will run you ragged.
EDIT – An afterthought – When you do settle on a price, make a contract with a clear set of deliverables. Clients often like to add on extra bits that occur to them later, like asking you to edit photos or write text content. Put a clause in the contract that any work in excess of the stated deliverables will be billed at an hourly rate. This will save your life.
I think it is a fair amount for an Elementor build. A lot of people earn less. But I will leave the decision to you. It’s your work, your price is what is final.