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I think you approach it from the 'wrong' direction. You have to calculate your costs.
Example. Lets say this will be your only full-time job. You know, or can calculate, what you need for living each year (including savings for pension etc). To do your job you need maybe an office, a car and equipment. Further you might need company insurances etc. On top of that you need time for other things (sales, administration etc).
52 weeks in a year (minus some holidays) 30 hours per week (remaining hours for admin, sales etc) so 50x30=1500 hours you can work on BIM work drawing for your clients. Total costs per year / 1500 is your minimum hourly rate needed.
If your clients do not want to pay your hourly rate you do not have a viable business and better look for something else.
Louis
Please mention Revit version, especially when uploading Revit files.
@EnlInt wrote:
I think you approach it from the 'wrong' direction. You have to calculate your costs.
Example. Lets say this will be your only full-time job. You know, or can calculate, what you need for living each year (including savings for pension etc). To do your job you need maybe an office, a car and equipment. Further you might need company insurances etc. On top of that you need time for other things (sales, administration etc).
52 weeks in a year (minus some holidays) 30 hours per week (remaining hours for admin, sales etc) so 50x30=1500 hours you can work on BIM work drawing for your clients. Total costs per year / 1500 is your minimum hourly rate needed.
If your clients do not want to pay your hourly rate you do not have a viable business and better look for something else.
On the other hand, if it is "side work" you can charge whatever makes you happy. How much do you value your time doing other things, and how much "side work" do you have?
For example I do some work designing models/patterns that are laser cut from MDF for a company. I sell the design/pattern to them and they fabricate the model kits for retail sale. Building the models is kind of a hobby of mine anyhow, so I don't charge a whole lot for that "side work" because I like it. It is fun to see a model you designed out for retail sale. Other kinds of jobs I might charge more because it is more of a "job" to me.
Yes, you are right. From the post I assumed it was going about a 'full' time job.
For me no side jobs. Only several volunteering functions....all free of charge. ![]()
Louis
Please mention Revit version, especially when uploading Revit files.
@L.Maas, and @loboarch this is great feedback! It would be my full time job. I already have all computer equipment set up, and an extra room for an office. Just need Revit subscription money. Not much overhead on the cloud! I love it so far!!! I just finished a pretty large home builders project that made good money.
Yes!! Revit is not like work to me at all. I do see people scrambling in the Dallas/ Fort Worth area here to get their product into Revit NOW. High demand. I hear you can charge up to $75/hr. More thoughts?
Dang it! I am helping another company right now who pays for my software, so when I reply sometimes it's signed into that account, but I want all my activity on this account, my personal account. HAHA! Someone on the forum the other week spanked my hand, saying I was trying to duel account for some kind of gain or something, ![]()
@Anonymous
Hearing that you can do 75$/hr (is that before of after taxes btw?) is not sufficient basis build on...any business which one plans on starting, starts with a market study...
a lot of other factors and criteria to consider before you even start on knowing your competitors
Then comes your costs...on top of what @L.Maas mentioned briefly, there are the PR and Marketing costs...it is not just an office, some computers, cloud and product subscription and off you go!...No Connections No money (otherwise it's gonna be - give us our daily bread)! And those need time on top...and while working with one client you need to find and secure the second...time again
well ... Not discouraging you but you need to start putting the basic things on paper and do some serious planning a proper business case based on market facts not only assumptions. I know lots of freelancers who are barely breaking even
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