I’m changing my pricing, which was last revised in a major way in February 2018. It’s been overdue for quite a while.
As I do more of this work, I’ve realized that that the pricing of certain work (generally the more complex work, such as large upgrades or conversions) doesn’t come close to reflecting the actual effort required, at least at my nominal hourly labor rate.
But also prices have been up in general the last four years, and inflation in particular has gone up in the last year or so. So I need to account for that.
I still offer both commercial and noncommercial pricing. Noncommercial pricing is discounted to 50% of the commercial rate. My base labor rate is now $70/hour commercial, $35/hour noncommercial.
One price was lowered: the cost of adding additional extensions, language packs, emoticon packs and rank images packs, at least if you want me to do three or more of these in the same job. These went from $30 to $15 each commercial, and $15 to $7.50 each noncommercial. That’s because when you do these in bulk, they don’t take much time. Most of the time is in finding the right versions. Uploading and installing them is generally simple.
Overall, prices were raised about 16%. For the more complex tasks like large upgrades and conversions, the pricing change is about 60%. This is because these tasks are time consuming and challenging, and typically involve a lot of close work with the client. There are usually plentiful questions and answers required, and careful attention to detail to satisfy the client. This results in a lot of time, so my pricing should reflect that. It may be that this time is still not fully captured in my pricing. I’ll reassess this in a year.
You can see my updated pricing summary here.
