How much experience do you have? You should compare your total product versus industry standards for your market.
If this will be your primary source of income you will need to charge a lot more to account for things like taxes, supplies, etc. If this is side work then you don't have to worry about that so much.
So the real questions are, what is the average hourly rate for the market you will be pursuing, and how do your skills rate compared to industry professionals. After you know this it's easy. If it takes you twice as long as it would a professional, you need to charge half as much, and so on.
For example, my market is local clients. Local designers and programmers go for $75 to $100 per hour. Now you have to take into consideration what a potential client gets for that one hour. An experienced HTML/CSS coder may be able to code an entire page in one hour where it may take someone with less experience 3 or 4. If people expect 1 page to be coded for $100 maximum and it takes you 4 hours to finish it, you should consider charging $25 per hour because you lack the experience it would take to finish in the same time a more experience coder could finish.
|