Just saw the math on charging per hour vs per project and I totally switched sides

For like 2 years I was all about hourly billing. Felt safe, you know? Then I did a branding project for a bakery in Hamilton and tracked my hours. Came out to $38 an hour after all the back and forth. Next week the same kind of project I quoted flat at $800 and finished in 11 hours. That's almost $73 an hour. The numbers just hit different when you see them side by side. Has anyone else found a specific threshold where one makes way more sense?

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sagejackson6d ago

Yep, anything under 20 hours I flat rate now.

sam_cooper6d ago

Same man, same. Is there anything worse than getting halfway into a 15 hour flat rate job and realizing it's gonna take way more time? I started doing that exact same cutoff after I got burned on a few timing chains that were way worse than the book time suggested. Now if I can't knock it out in a day, I just quote it hourly and sleep way better at night.

sanchez.julia6d ago

Yeah that numbers breakdown really makes it obvious once you do the math yourself.