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Cost of developing 1 hour of elearning
I occasionally have clients ask me if there are any industry standards regarding elearning development, particularly around cost.
"Sean," they say, "How much should we be paying for an hour of el...
This has been a helpful thread. I started freelancing as an instructional and graphic designer after 15 years in the corporate world... but I started as a copyeditor, so over the years it's been expected of me that I'll "do it all," from project management to instructional design to storyboarding to editing to programming to deployment to you-name-it... good in some ways, not so good in others. There are reasons why we have more than one head on any given project! So as I struggle to price my jobs as a freelancer, it's been challenging for me to separate one role to the next, and price for what I'm actually doing without shorting myself when I think, "Oh, I can find or create the images on top of ID, it's no big deal." Well it IS a big deal!
Part of me wishes this thread was open to the people who hire us... they're often the people who need to know what this kind of work entails, why we charge what we do, and how we decide what should cost what.
Enough ranting. Thanks to all who've posted above with the pricing calculators and info... it sure helps validate the thought process I go through when pricing new projects.
Chuck DuSablon
