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If you bill by the day how do you manage expectations of how much of that day goes to client work? Particularly if the work is onsite? I would like to stop bil
by ritchiea 12y ago
If you bill by the day how do you manage expectations of how much of that day goes to client work? Particularly if the work is onsite?
I would like to stop billing by the hour but I fear if I bill by the day I'll get "well my days last 12 hours, why don't yours?" Oftentimes when there is a lot of programming to do and not much managing, planning, etc I am burned out after six hours.
- tptacek 12y agoI'm not even clear on how you could reasonably bill hourly for on-site work. Your client made you travel to their office and then back. Your day is shot; your client ate the whole thing up. They pay for a day. The universal convention in the US is that a work-day is 8 hours long. You don't need to spell that out (doing so just invites questions and unwelcome negotiation). Work an 8-hour day. If your client has a problem with that, they'll tell you, and then you can negotiate. That negotiation may end up with your rate jumping up (GREAT: that's your new rate there forever), or with you jettisoning the client.