What are you charging your customers

That’s a loaded question and you’re going to get all sorts of responses most likely anywhere from $500 – $100,000. It just depends on too many factors. But one of the biggest factors is “who is the client”? If it’s a small mom and pop shop, obviously they don’t have $100,000 to spend and a website isn’t worth that much to them, so you’ll get closer to the $1,000 range. If it’s a medium to large business with revenue in the millions, then you’re looking at closer to the $100,000 range when having an agency develop/design it. Also a developer from India/insert country may charge 1/10th of what someone in the US or Canada for example might charge.

At the end of the day, if you’re billing hourly, charge what you feel you’re worth based on your experience/skills. Then estimate how many hours the project will take you and do the math.

Personally for me, I don’t take projects for under $20,000 at this point, and it’s rare they are that low. Some may think that’s too high, but it’s not too high when I’m fully booked out with projects most of the year. I also don’t deal with small business/mom and pop shops (unless I’m mid projects and have the time). That’s why questions like this aren’t really useful without context as you’re going to get so many different answers.

Also to add to this. A lot of people from overseas ask this question continuously as they want to be charging more. I work with a lot of talented people overseas and everyone has positives and negatives. The main issue with people living overseas is the inability to understan US culture, business culture, locations for the business, and a lot of times what the business does.

I live in the US but not originally from here and I am also booked months out with sites that are over 20k.

The main reason outside good design, clean code etc is experience. I can take something existing and make it better not just copy something in a better layout without thinking but actually thinking things through and ensuring that the site will actually scale after launch.

So for the people that want to charge more
Learn the culture
Understand your audience, location etc
Design with a purpose
Write clean code and avoid plugin clustfuckery
Create a process that will help drive growth (keyword research – wireframes – content – design – clean html – WordPress)

Only at that level you will be able to charge more. Until then try to find people that can pay well but you can also learn from them and always better your skills and process.

I always say to my team, do work that is so good that no one will ever ask or care to where you are from.

Here in Australia depending on the job we charge from $6k upto $20k + and then hosting starts at 60+gst all the way upto $5,500 per month depending on needs. That’s extreme obviously most are $60 -$250 + gst per month