RE: How much to charge?

As one of the oft quoted business faqs say:  Divide the amount of money you
want to make annually by the hours you want to work annually.  <example>
$1,000,000 / 50 Hours (roughly 1 hour a week with two weeks vacation) =
$20,000 an hour.</example>  Count on a lot of "down" time.  You need to be
paid for the hours you develop your business, bill clients, do bookwork,
sharpen your skills, read email, and most importantly sell/market.  Count on
50-65% of your time to be "billable hours."  The most important thing is to
charge high now.  You can always lower prices if you are too high.  You will
have lots of trouble raising your rates later.

David L. Semans

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