By unundindur on

Hi.

I am sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, but I read the stickys, and they didn't say anything about it.

I was wondering what price range to expect if I post something here. I don't want to be rude by going below the market price without making it clear, and I don't want to go to high and look foolish.

For reference, what is the going rate for 1 week of work?

In my particular case I am looking for a forum/articles/front page/shop (not standard) setup, built with a custom template (from my .psd file) and SEO in mind. A Chinese friend did something similar in joomla in about a week, but I am not sure if that is reasonable, or if joomla/drupal are comparable in terms of development time.

Thanks for the help,
Ras

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Arnold Leung’s picture

Arnold Leung commented

The answer to this question is that it depends:

Off-shore rate: $15-$20/hr

Freelancer Rate in North America: $30-$60

Consulting Shop Rate: $70-$100

High-end Consulting Shop Rate: $150-$250

P.S: I also know shops that charge $300/hr, and they are one of the most experienced Drupal shops around and have built some of the biggest Drupal sites.

Each of these categories come with its own advantages and disadvantages.

Arnold

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michelle
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Your first sentence was the answer. :)

You can more than double the top end of a NA freelancer. It depends on skill level and what the market will bear. Right now, Drupal folks have more work than they can handle. Rates would likely change a lot if that changed.

Michelle

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victorkane commented

I suppose the term off-shore refers to those fortunate exploitative conglomerates who have been crafty enough to enslave a group of undocumented hackers on a ship somewhere floating in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

For those of us not lucky enough to be currently residing in that third world country called the United States of America, we also demand and get a decent wage.

I think the appropriate answer would take into account levels of experience, not place of residence.

There are no decent "off-shore" drupal workers (the question refers to drupal work) who are going to charge that low a price. And Michelle is absolutely right, you can double the Freelance rate for starters.

Right now the demand for freelance web application workers is high, not only because of the scarcity of skilled workers, but also because the hierarchical and obsolete form of organization in companies, large and small, is incompatible with best practices and efficiency in web application development, and this has led them to flock to open source communities, first because they are incapable of producing software, and second because they are incapable of organizing themselves (because they combat internal attempts to adopt agile best practices, driven only by a blind insaciable emergency market crisis) to create applications.

Strong leadership in certain circumstances have offset this, and figure prominently in the Drupal community.

But, there will be a lot of work for a considerable period of time.

And when that ends, who knows, we might have a way of life that produces in tune to people's real needs, and then we will all be "out of work" but producing happily.

Victor Kane
http://awebfactory.com.ar

Victor Kane
http://awebfactory.com

Arnold Leung’s picture

Arnold Leung commented

Oh well. I was obviously implying lower cost country when I say off-shore. I get calls from them every day about "off-shoring" and "outsourcing" (after saying no like 500 times) and these are the numbers they tell me.

Arnold