Project Pricing
Price a fixed-fee project by including the time, costs, uncertainty and margin that a simple hours × rate estimate leaves out.
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Work out what to quote for a fixed-price project.
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Recommended project quote
$6,600
$147/hour
Effective rate across 45 total hours
Labour value
$4,500
Base project value
$5,000
Contingency
$500
10% of base value
Recommended quote
$6,600
Suggested quote, not a required minimum
What this means
You expect 40 delivery hours plus 5 hours of admin and client management — 45 hours in total. At $100/hour that's $4,500 of labour, plus $500 of external costs. A 10% contingency covers scope changes and revisions, and a 20% markup is applied on top of that total. Quoting $6,600 works out at an effective $147/hour if the project runs to plan.
Summary of your calculation
- Labour value (45 hrs × $100)
- $4,500
- External costs
- $500
- Base project value
- $5,000
- Contingency (10%)
- $500
- Profit markup (20%)
- $1,100
- Recommended quote
- $6,600
- Effective hourly rate
- $146.67
Don't price only the hours spent doing the work
Fixed-fee projects go wrong when the quote covers delivery hours and nothing else.
Admin time
Briefings, calls, project management and reporting are real hours.
Revisions
Feedback rounds and scope drift almost always cost more than planned.
External costs
Software, subcontractors, stock assets, travel and production costs.
Contingency
A buffer for the unknowns you can't see at quoting time.
Profit
A markup on top of costs so the project builds your business, not just covers it.