Freelance Flash hourly rates

[SerenePhoenix]

Hi everyone

I've been asked to provide an hourly rate for creating flash animations and interactive flash applications for kiosk touchscreens. Only problem is I don't have a clue as to what the going rate is. I've only really been doing flash for the fun of it and I tend to undercharge people. I know of people who charge R4000 to create a simple screen with four videos that play when each is tapped with all the necessary little things like return to main screen etc. To me it sounds like daylight robbery to charge R4000. I was thinking more like R250 per hour, or lets say R2500.

Any recommendations?

 

[ElementZero]

Hi everyone

I've been asked to provide an hourly rate for creating flash animations and interactive flash applications for kiosk touchscreens. Only problem is I don't have a clue as to what the going rate is. I've only really been doing flash for the fun of it and I tend to undercharge people. I know of people who charge R4000 to create a simple screen with four videos that play when each is tapped with all the necessary little things like return to main screen etc. To me it sounds like daylight robbery to charge R4000. I was thinking more like R250 per hour, or lets say R2500.

Any recommendations?

R250 an hour is way too less , i've been in dev teams for around 10years now .Net developers are about R550 - R600 , Flash you looking at R450 - R500 per hour depending on how good you are. Best advice , look at what needs to be done and approximate hours based on the customer needs , document what is needed attached a quote for how long this will take and make the customer sign as agreed on ,reason being you may quote 40 hours for what they want then after you start doing the work they start changing their mind and want this and that changed, if they want things changed you will have to requote them or quote changes as change requests and add hours per change as the end of it you may end up taking 100hours and only paid for 40hours. Just some advise.

 

[stricken]

Start on R200 - R250 an hour... and depending on workload... gradually increase it... indicating things like rising food and petrol prices.


I have done some Flash Dev for R280 an hour and the client thought it was fair.

 

[murraybiscuit]

it really depends on the quality of your work.
if it's simple, doesn't involve flex and much as3, and doesn't require hot design, that sounds like an okay fee (probably a bit low imo)
if it's for a large brand needing a ria with rpc calls and hot design, you can charge anything from R400 upwards.

at the end of the day business is about supply and demand.

 

[Murdoc]

R250 an hour is way too less , i've been in dev teams for around 10years now .Net developers are about R550 - R600 , Flash you looking at R450 - R500 per hour depending on how good you are. Best advice , look at what needs to be done and approximate hours based on the customer needs , document what is needed attached a quote for how long this will take and make the customer sign as agreed on ,reason being you may quote 40 hours for what they want then after you start doing the work they start changing their mind and want this and that changed, if they want things changed you will have to requote them or quote changes as change requests and add hours per change as the end of it you may end up taking 100hours and only paid for 40hours. Just some advise.

As a designer i wish i could charge something closer to a developers rates :O
Provide a contact sheet showing the initial design before i actually start on the flash. This will help with the revisions and amendments alot

I would say R350 for basic timeline flash.
I have no experience with the scipting side so i cant say.

Just remember that profit isnt a dirty word

 

[SerenePhoenix]

Awesome, thanks for the input everyone! It would seem that I am going to increase my asking price a little