As I’m sure you know, budgets depend on many factors.
To name a few:
- Your location, this is a big one.
- Competition, their prices, ect
- The client (do you like him/her, previous business, ect)
- The scope of the project (obviously 200 page, CMS driven eCommerce site is going to cost them)
- How well the clients business is going (Successful established business will expect to pay more than a new start-up, for example.)
- Your expenses
In my current situation I work with a PHP developer, we usually charge between $750 – $3500 for different levels of sites.
Recently we were talking with a client who wants a re-design and a much more robust eCommerce solution than what she currently has.
Once we received the basic questionnaire, we sent her a ballpark figure and she was shocked “why are you so cheap?” she was previously quoted $8000 elsewhere.
So an “average” is a hard number to determine, something around $1500-$2000 for us currently if I had to choose.
