Title: I am using an anonymous account for this post.  Indeed,  I registered this account solely for the purpose of this post.  Sorry, pg.<p>I have been freelancing for almost a decade, and I still never know what to say when a prospective client asks me this question.<p>Given that I have always worked alone, and given that I have never talked to anyone about this topic openly, my response has always been based on personal intuition.  Now I wonder if I am underselling myself.<p>I am not sure if this is a taboo topic among hackers, but my impression is that such a thing does not really exist.  But given that I don't know any hackers who freelance personally, I have a real need for getting some more datapoints.  If I don't know what others are billing, and I therefore bill significantly less out of my own ignorance and misestimation of effort, I reduce the average price at which others are able to charge.  The compound effect of this is tha we are all running like hamsters on wheels for very little money.<p>Between 16 and 21, I made 5 to 10 HTML-only websites for between $2,000 and $5,000.  I also made 3 to 5 flash-based intros/websites for between $5,000 and $20,000.<p>At 21, I made a .NET-based windows desktop app for $50,000.<p>At 24, I wrote a RoR web-based app for $100,000.<p>These were all freelance projects built by me from scratch while doing HS and Uni.<p>Does anyone else feel like sharing what they billed for contract projects (not subcontracting gigs, client-direct only -- before any type of broker takes their cut)?  It doesn't have to be something you did personally.  Maybe you know what the company you worked for billed for developing a specific type of app.  The results will only be interesting if we get numerous data points, and the best way to motivate more responses is to respond yourself.
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