At the Webarchitects AGM today we had a brief discussion about our hourly rates (what we charge clients for our time, not what we pay ourselves), currently £60 an hour with reduced rates dropping to £42 an hour for contracted hours, the substantial work this generally covers these days is writing Ansible code to configure Debian servers.
A few people at our AGM suggested that these rates were too low, I suggested that I’d ask on this forum what rates other tech co-ops are charging their time out at… so if anyone is willing to share their rates I’d be interested to hear what they are…
[edited] - just to flag, this forum is public Not that we hide our rates from people, and I’d like to answer your question - it just feels sensitive to allow random people or organisations to gather info about a lot of us without being part of this network and sharing our values.
I think this topic was discussed at Wortley Hall as well - not sure where the info that resulted lives.
Thanks for all the feedback on this thread, at our last committee meeting Webarchitects agreed to increase our rates from 1st December to £90 per hour for general technical support work and £120 per hour for development work:
Wow @chris! Good for you!
Agile Collective has a standard rate of £650 + VAT per day (7 hours).
If we were to charge £120 per hour, that would put this at £840 +VAT
Maybe Agile Collective should up our rates, but there is always the risk that we might win less work if we increased our rates by that extent.
I look forward to hearing how your new rates work out for Webarchitects in the new year.
All the best,
Finn
- it just feels sensitive to allow random people or organisations to gather info about a lot of us without being part of this network and sharing our values.