On February 1, 2009 at 20:45, Audible Solutions said...
It is not that I cannot charge my hourly rate it is that
I cannot bill for the real time it takes to install and
program a system, unless I am willing to lower the cost
of other parts of the proposal.
hmm...
Sounds to me that your ideal hourly rate for programming is too high then. If you can only charge 2k for what you perceive as 10k worth of work, your math is obviously flawed.
Could it be a Crestron programmer isn't worth 150+ dollars a hour? Unless it's a service call to repair something, and they then have the cilent bent over a barrel. Of course if the cilent had the source code he could contract someone else.....ohhh....now your angle makes sense.
Bottom line is... If you can't get paid for what you think your time is worth. It isn't worth what you think. ...and there's more to it then just an hourly rate Alan. It's your hourly rate multiplied by hours needed to do the job. You can skew your math and say the cilent isn't paying what it's worth to you, but if they paid in full, blame yourself for short changing yourself and hand over the code the cilent paid for.
