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Originally Posted by BestXXXPorn
You don't and it doesn't matter ...
That's why you ask for multiple bids from different people. You look at a few different things:
1) Delivery Date
2) Total Cost
3) Quality of Work
Cost per hour doesn't matter in the end. I know some devs that will charge $50/hr and will take 10 hours for X job...
Then I know others who can do the same work in 4 hours but they run $150 / hr. They also produce much cleaner, more extensible code... However they have a backlog of work so don't expect anything for a couple weeks at least...
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This is pretty spot on. When I work with people I usually send them the details and specs of what I need and they come back to me with what they want for the work and when they can have it delivered by.
I'd also advise against making a full payment upfront before work has been completed. Not sure if that's part of the equasion but thought I would throw it out there. You can do a split and pay part upfront and part when delivered, perfectly reasonable and I think works out best. I've done full cash upfront a few times with both developers and designers I knew were good for it, never been screwed over by it, but 9 times out of 10 when I have done it for people it results in delayed delivery dates.
