hourly rate

[Stulish]

I have a question for the community. what is a standard hourly rate for app development. I have a company that want some apps and I was wondering.

thanks

 

[Informatix]

I have a question for the community. what is a standard hourly rate for app development. I have a company that want some apps and I was wondering.

thanks

Indian/chinese hourly rate ?
US/European hourly rate ?

In France, you can find everything, from 30 euros per hour to more than 100.

 

[Stulish]

i am in the UK, i will give an overall price for the app rather than an hourly rate, and i think it will take 3 to 4 weeks altogether, so i was thinking about £15 (19 euros). As this is not my main job and i could probably produce the app faster if i did it full time. i am just figuring our exactly what they want at the moment.

thanks

 

[ScarBelly]

For a fixed price contract you should do what you can to determine the value of the product to the customer and charge based on their receiving an ROI in a certain time. Given the transience of Android Apps, that may be only 6 months. For more traditional projects, 18 - 36 months is often used.

 

[Stulish]

the app basically receives data over a Bluetooth connection and displays it for the ships captain, all nav systems like, GPS, GYRO, AIS, Depth and speed etc.
they will ship a tablet with each system they fit.

regards

Stu

 

[Stulish]

one other thing is they should be able to use it for years to come

 

[mc73]

It's all quite relative. Juniors usually go for 15-20€ph (I've heard even lower rates, but not my job to convince anyone to respect his own work), seniors can range between 60 and infinity. If another developer needs twice as much time as you, this means twice as much time waiting, and certainly a lower hr for him. It's just all too relative. How useful your app is, is your client in real need, is it something totally new and/or custom? Just too many parameters.