Hi Erik,

You said:
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Those customers that look at price, not the performance record pay $20- $25 per hour for novices and end up paying much more for the project 'cause they do not get experience at that price. The going rate for experience is $45 - $55 per hour and for true excellence $75 - $125 per hour.
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But you need to define who is a novice, when does he change into experience and when that changes into true excellence.


And also, who will decide that how many hours one has actually worked upon the project ??

In my opinion it should be a lump sum deal instead of man-hour basis.

I think you mean calculate man hours yourself and decide a total for that and tell that as a lump sum price to the client

Simon