[StavrosK]

What do you do that you charge 200 eur/hr?

[notzorbo3]

Thats the fee for my part-time freelance consulting. 200 is on the low end.

[loup-vaillant]

Man that's expensive. Here in France, contractors tend to cost less than 400€ a day. That's almost 4 times cheaper than you are.

I guess that's the difference between consulting and contracting.

[StavrosK]

Huh, I'm way undercharging.

[notzorbo3]

The higher you charge, the more horrible your consultancy job will be generally ;-) I've found €200 to be the sweet spot between actually doing useful tech work and being in nonsense meetings all day.

[StavrosK]

What sort of tech work do you do, though? Nobody is going to pay 200 EUR for frontend development, say.

[notzorbo3]

All kinds really. From transitioning companies to modern CI/CD practices to security counseling to integration work to helping out with automation and such. It's about 50% low level tech stuff and %50 advisements.

[StavrosK]

Ah, I see, thank you.

[zenlikethat]

Common mistake -- you might want to look into Patrick McKenzie's material about consulting. Some clients you'll even be able to say "I'm raising rates" and just start getting more money for the same work without issue.

[StavrosK]

I doubt it's going to be that easy, because some clients already balk at the current rates. It greatly depends on your niche, that's why I asked the GP what he was consulting on.

[zenlikethat]

Clients always balk at rates. Fire the worst ones and keep the ones who pay up if you can. You should always be looking for better clients (i.e., doing outbound sales) if you want to charge more.