What to Charge!

[Mr.Ben]

Right, I've looked at those 'extra' jobs (friends and school staff etc) I've done this year and am thinking that it's time to put prices up. Especially as a little bit of work on my car now costs £400.

 

Not wanting to price myself out of the market what do you guys charge for the following

 

Full PC rebuild + Data Transfer (If possible) with all restore disks provided by the customer. I'm thinking £30?

 

Full PC rebuild & DT without any of the original media - so I have to find/provide it. I'm thinking £40?

 

Upgrades (of any sort and obviously parts on top of that) I'm thinking £15-£20?

 

Your hourly rate for stuff that doesn't need a rebuild, not that common with me anymore, I prefer to wipe them if infected - £20?

 

Your hourly rate for tuition. I'm thinking £20?

 

Advice from me will always be free - and i tend to avoid buying parts myself - I can push all the time I would have to spend chasing faulty parts somewhere else (although it's never happened). Bear in mind that I seem to unwittingly have a collection of spare RAM and HDD's from machines that have died and this gets used in the first instance if it's ok and I don't charge for it.

 

God I wish I had become a mechanic (and still might!).

Edited January 19, 2010 by Mr.Ben

[michael2k6]

What part of the country you in? At those prices, i'll outsource my work to you. LMAO

[Mr.Ben]

What part of the country you in? At those prices, i'll outsource my work to you. LMAO

 

No, that would be too much effort to learn an accent like 'Pete', 'Steve' or 'Shelley' at the end of the Dell helpline.......Not to mention the sales call I had today who couldn't understand that my business turnover (for school) was nil!

 

:-)

 

TBH, I haven't even looked at what PC world and the like charge for this, Perhaps I'm being too honest. A rebuild takes about an hour of effort, I'll go and do something else whilst it's getting on with it. I'm not too quick either asw i'll do it when I'm ready - I have a life to get on with as well!

 

Might be better just to do hourly rates.

Edited January 20, 2010 by Mr.Ben

[Ric_]

tbh I got annoyed with people taking the p***. There's certain people I will keep sweet and if it's a mate the obvious common sense applies. Anyone else it's £40 per hour or part there of. Travel expenses are on top!

 

Bear in mind that if you do enough 'extra' jobs, you need to be paying tax and possibly buying extra kit.

Edited March 20, 2010 by witch

[jedmondson]

PC world prices are as follows.

£69.99 For a service (Price excludes any software or parts needed to repair your PC.)

£99 for full wipe and restore of your pc (depending on what level you chose)

 

I would charge around £50-80 for backup and reinstall depending on amount of time it takes and only when they have original disks.

 

Virus scans and cleans are problematic to charge for as it depends on whats happened! so say 30 plus 10 P/H on top?

[fafster]

I charge a basic flat rate of £20 to individuals, and £25 per hour for businesses (I have to declare that, so the extra accounts for tax) regardless of what I'm doing. It makes everything easier, as they can use my time as they see fit.

 

If I get an urgent request (i.e. less than 24 hours notice) I add a £30 fee for inconvenience. That just applies to businesses, mind.

[ICT_GUY]

£30 per hour for anything computer related, £25 call out charge. £50 per page for websites with a minimum of £200 to include design.

 

I don't get lots of work but then again I when I do it pays well. The web design business is far more profitable than computer fixing, usually working out at £300 - £1500 per job with 95% profit margin.

[michael2k6]

To be honest Mr. Ben i don't charge far off what you do - but it depends who you're doing it for. For example, one of the people i do a fair bit of work for is the publicity manager at a large club, and still dj's at two others, and has shares in a fourth, so whenever i go out with my friends, we're on the guest list like me

+ 10 and no one pays. I get drinks bought all night for saving them the money and i get a free night out. It's things like that which will make the difference to pottering around doing odd jobs for people, i find, rather than the bits of money coming in.

 

Do be careful though, if you're making any kind of money on the side, it *has* to be declared, and they even make you declare freebies for things like free club entry, as 'payment in kind'. Also remember word of mouth is a good way to go - 2 of the clubs in question now soley use me as their IT bod, but i also do some of their cabling etc aswell for the sound and lighting rigs.

And that's just one example, i've also got a plumber, a corgi man, a plasterer... pick and choose who you help if you haven't got time to do them all, and swing it your way. Just make sure legal, you don't want tripping up for a massive tax bill that's acrued over 5 years and now you have to pay *insertrandominsanefigure*.

[fafster]

£30 per hour for anything computer related, £25 call out charge. £50 per page for websites with a minimum of £200 to include design.

 

I don't get lots of work but then again I when I do it pays well. The web design business is far more profitable than computer fixing, usually working out at £300 - £1500 per job with 95% profit margin.

 

A primary school is looking to update their website, and I've been asked if I'm willing to do it. I'm going to set up Joomla so that they can create their own content easily enough. The problem is, I don't know whether to take care of the hosting requirements and charge accordingly, or walk the school through it so that they take care of it themselves.

 

Also, what's a fair price for setting up a Joomla site? £350? £400?

[ICT_GUY]

A primary school is looking to update their website, and I've been asked if I'm willing to do it. I'm going to set up Joomla so that they can create their own content easily enough. The problem is, I don't know whether to take care of the hosting requirements and charge accordingly, or walk the school through it so that they take care of it themselves.

 

Also, what's a fair price for setting up a Joomla site? £350? £400?

 

How many pages? £50 per page is middle of the range once you throw in the design time. setting up a Joomla site can cost upwards of £1-2K. Last big site I did was £1600 inc hosting.

 

Hosting I would take car of yourself, netpivotal will sell you a developers account to host 8 sites, charge the school the whole amount which is still cheap for hosting. You can charge to the school and sell on the rest of the hosting to other customers.

 

win win win