monumental
Hi,
I am a fellow engineering student who does graphics, animation, coding as a second income.
I began accepting payments after working with university students and local businesses.
However, I face a problem in estimating my prices and I know no real reference to align with.
I have read a somehow official announcement that stated that motion graphics for example are priced as 50$/second.
I know that seems unrealistic given the country we live in, and no customer is willing to pay that especially students.
So I will try to list a few things and will like your opinion on how much to price them
1/ Motion graphic using Adobe After Effects
University student
(around 30s but some part are just transitions, and others require some expression controls such as animated pie charts, bars)
Priced 60$
Took me around 4 hours
2/ Flash game using Adobe Flash (back in 2013)
University student
(a really complex side scroller with levels and stuff, but the client was my first and I knew him before)
Priced 500,000LL
Customers would happily pay in most cases, which led me to a conclusion that other people request higher prices (non in my area)
If you know how to price these and give more examples (Web design, 3d graphics) as for students, tell me
mah0x00
Hi, monumental
you can decide the amount required as payment for your work according to the price of the materials used if you are making something physical, but if you are doing something not physical such as a software you have three ways:
first: you can look around an know the price of that kind of work in your area and put your price like others.
second: you can put a specific price depending on what type of work you did and this case it doesn't matter if it is high or low because it depends on the quality of your work if you are very talented and have high quality you can ask for high price if not go for the low one.
third: you can decide how much you want according to how much time and effort it will take to make the job done example lets assume that your hour worth 25$ and you had to work for 4 hours than the price will be 100$ and this is the fair way as I do.
Red7
Usually experience is also a deciding factor. In your case it will be proven by your portfolio of projects.
- Demand of your labor vs availability
- Experience
- Your personal distinction in pricing/quality
rolf
I have done 5 year of freelancing.
In theory, the best is to set the hourly pricing that you would like and feel you deserve (eg: $32/hour) and then if customers don't like it then well it's too bad.
However in practice even after 5 years I still find it hard to be assertive and find myself doing discounts for customers even without them asking.