[interstice]

Freelance web developer background currently developer / business owner - my achievable baseline is 30 hours of billed out time and around 10 hours of admin/emails/meetings etc. Keeping the emails from eating the rest is an ongoing battle though.

[orblivion]

Do you not charge for meetings? And what about emails where you're hashing out something clearly in the domain of what you're working on?

[interstice]

It depends on the meetings (and the email), if its directly related to a project it can fall under project management but a lot of them end up being internal comms or estimating for minor jobs that might not be approved etc.

[sarchertech]

When I’m consulting the only meetings I don’t bill for are meetings with prospects.