Question about programming prices

[Joe Rod]

Hi, i would like to know which are the prices actually on LUA, C++...
Also, if you work with that... How do you find better? Charge per hour or script?

It would be nice if you could say me about your experience

Thanks in advance

 

[Deleted member 49793]

Depends on how difficult the work is. I'll pay anywhere from 5 euro/hr to 40

 

[Joe Rod]

Depends on how difficult the work is. I'll pay anywhere from 5 euro/hr to 40

Nice, thanks for sharing

@post
Could someone add something more? It would be nice :')

 

[Michael Orsino]

Pretty much the minimum a full time contracting programmer would be charging in a first world country:

USD $50,000 p.a. to cover salary, superannuation & health
Office worker @ 8 hours per day, 5 days a week, 48 weeks a year = 1920 hours total
50k / 1920 hours = $26 per hour


Personally I wouldn't get out of bed for that little, but people do it

 

[whitevo]

From my own perspective since I been doing such thing for months.
I started off pretty low 2$ hour. I'm no professional and I though its quite fair price because it took me quite some time to make something simple.
Besides I took this price based of this idea: I do a script entire day for someone else and then I can trade this 20$ for nice piece of map. win win

But at that time I was in so called "breakpoint" of scripting. I started seeing codes a little differently and how to make them. + making scripts for my own server and others increased the amount of different things I did.
Eventually If I had to I could make the same scripts twice as fast and even better. So I decided to increase the price to 4$/h.

Idk what happened like 2 months ago. But suddenly lot of several people wanted to make "hexera" copy + their ideas.
I got like 1 offer per day for doing this or that. At that time I didn't have any schedule or anything to keep track of how many offers I need to do and when.
So if I knew I gotta make script for someone tomorrow and maybe after tomorrow too, I just said "no time, should I contact you next week?".
Around that "me want scripts boom" I started increasing price $. Just to reduce the amount of people asking scripts from me. So I could do some of my own server too xD

Currently I ask 7€/h and I feel like stealing xD, but meh there are reasons why its gotten so high.

I guess, to see how much script should cost, post the idea of your script to Jobs thread. Maybe people suggest their prices or their idea of good price. (I know I will )

Looking at the history of my trades. Seems like the average price for system like things fall between 30-40$. And it hasn't much changed since the time I did it for 2$/h and now latest sold price 6€/h

 

[Snuggles]

When I was developing a World of Warcraft private server - I paid my developer 300$-500$ per month (depending on what kind of script it was) for a lot of work in C++ and within that time I could get anything I wanted.

I do however believe agreeing to a certain amount hourly or better yet per script is much better for both parties.

 

[Joe Rod]

@thatmichaelguy
It sounds good :3

@whitevo
Nice story, but sincerely i thought you would finish in 2X $ or something. 7eur is too low yet. If you are better now you should charge more xD

@Snuggles
Very nice, i would like to get a contract like that

@thread
Thanks for your answers. I would like to keep reading something more, share your experience if you want