Consultation Rate Advice
Hi Everyone, I’m looking for advice on sort of standard rates for consulting and development work. I’m out of the PNW and have been doing work a city on the side for about 2 years now. It’s mostly been minor layer creation and editing but has evolved into web applications and custom development.
As it is right now I feel I’m undercutting myself for a project by charging $3500. I am currently putting together a Program using Survey123 and Experience Builder, but was asked to build this out for people with no GIS experience. It has a lot of custom interaction and data scraping that automatically populates 75% of the survey from a drawn line. The survey entries are then visible and editable by their crew within experience builder using custom expressions and web tools I built. It has custom symbology to identify line due dates and automatic email notifications of lines due within specified time frames.
I’m in this project about 70 hours and have it nearly buttoned up. The reason I’m even asking is because I spoke to another municipality that paid close 40k for a web application alone using their own data. That just made me start to wonder if I’m severely undercharging or were they being severely overcharged. I’m just having a hard time finding where my rates should fall with this.