How much?

How much is the standard rate?

  • less than 30

    Votes: 3 50.0%

  • 30-50

    Votes: 1 16.7%

  • 50-100

    Votes: 1 16.7%

  • 100+

    Votes: 1 16.7%
  • Total voters
    6
  • Poll closed .
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KRCOMPUTERREPAIRS

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I understand if none of you want to tell people how much you earn. I am fixing PC's, freelance and am just wondering how much should i be charging. I charge 30 Euro per hour, but use to charge 50. I have heard of people charging 100. What seams to be the going rate?
 
Depends on the work you are doing, and your level of expertise. If my plumber can charge me $150USD an hour, I think an experienced computer technician with some kind of college degree should be able to charge the same.

I'd say ~$30USD an hour would be max for a teenager, more if you are in college. If you're running an OFFICIAL business/service than that can be a big help. At one point I thought someone here on the forums charged ~$130/hour and got good business.
 
If you go to one of "those places" Like geeksquad they will charge you 120$ just to install ram, You be charging that kind og money, but I would suggest being lower, because then people will use you once and keep coming back.
 
conversion factor around 1 to 1 or so? Anywho, helped this old lady out with her computer once (not a poor old lady mind you) and among other things she had 2 isp's and didn't know how to get online, she could only type letters and print them out, e-mail wasn't working. I also set up things like defragging to schedule automatically. She has a POS digital camera that I had to search the internet for drivers in order to get working, finally got that. Weeded through about a dozen usernames and passwords for various things till I found out which went to which, and other stuff. Anyways I spent a good 2 hours there, and my pay was a whopping $15. By the way, that was a pay cut from working with my dad. SO the next time she had computer trouble, I was "busy" for a couple months until she stopped asking.
 
Depends on what you're doing, who you're doing it for as well as whatever benifits you might get.... some examples:
1. Buddy I get a ride with to school, I charge "1 lunch per consultation"
2. Close friends get free anything
3. Casual customers ... $25/hr
4. Serious consultation/implement ... $125/hr
5. Some others i just charge a flat rate of say cost + $200 or somethin

As you can guess, there is a lot of variance, kinda gotta go case by case :)
 
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