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Originally Posted by asorelli
Ahh, copy, yeah ... important stuff for sure and good question, are people going to spend that. No idea, I mean, sure if you find them and it's a big enough job, why not!
On occasion I'll get a request for a quote for a custom website, but any recent quotes have wanted to stay in the $300 range and were asking for the world and more. The same type of site used to be in the $1,500 range. Could have just been random, who knows. I'm not really too involved in that space right now to know current pricing. I know that it takes about 5 days to do the work they were asking for though. So, $60 a day. I think you can make more flipping burgers.
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Even $1500 seems a little light for a custom website, depending on how you define "custom". In the mainstream, a non-interactive landing page comes in around $2000 minimum. That might seem like a lot, but not really. Let's say it takes anywhere between 5-15 hours to do. You might spend 50% of that time on actual coding, graphic design, etc. and 50% doing email/video consults and touch-ups or adjustments. All of it is time spent, though.
On a good day, you might make $400/hr and on a bad day, you make $130/hr. That sure sounds like a lot! But after taxes, you're taking home like 70% of that--and then if you're freelance, you're paying 3% up-front with Stripe, PayPal, etc., then you have to pay for your own healthcare, retirement, banking fees, professional fees (marketing, accounting, legal), etc. You might still be taking home $60/day after everything is said and done. These are mainstream numbers by the way--do we not value adult at a better rate? It requires a niche skill set and you want someone trustworthy to work on your business.
$300? Yeah, I don't think I could afford to take that job either. If it took you 5 days to put together a website like that, at $300, you would be looking at $15k/yr. That's the federal poverty level in the U.S.