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@JayJay141, here is a nice read: [click](http://optional.is/required/2013/01/21/getting-to-your-minimum-hourly-rate/)
Great article @CrocoDillon
@CrocoDillon, yea this article help allot
For those of you looking for contracts online instead of hiring your own lawyer, Docracy is a great resource with legal documents for web designers.
Sweet find, @chrisburton.
@TheDoc It was in my bookmarks bar the whole time.
Bookmarked Chris, thnx! By the way I have [this contract](https://gist.github.com/malarkey/4031110) from Andy Clarke bookmarked a while ago as well, for comparison if nothing else. Seems it’s on docracy as well.
Thanks guys – very helpful tips!
This is the kind of stuff I rarely see on dev sites, deff worth looking at for everyone who does development. Thanks again @chrisburton and @CrocoDillon for sharing and @mitso for sparking this convo.. I totally bookmarked a couple things after this post.
I can’t really dive into this right now in detail but $15 is really low. Most contracts are based on some sort of payment plan. Usually 50% upfront.
is that 50% of an estimated cost?
I think once you’ve been doing this for a while you sort of know how much time a project will take you. A contract helps keep things on schedule but that’s not to say issues don’t come up. Many freelancers ask for 50% upfront. This is also used as a “kill fee”. This way, if the people who’ve hired you back out or have to cancel for any reason, you still get paid for what you’ve done.
As a freelancer, you don’t receive the same perks of a 401k or health benefits that come with a corporate position . You have to provide that yourself. Do you think working for $15/hr will benefit you after thinking about those things? What about rent or mortgage payments? Food? Internet? Software? Retirement? These are all the things that you need to run a business and survive.