💰 Pricing & Estimating

How do you price design time — hourly, flat, or buried in the job?

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JohnImages In SignMod🌱💬

Three camps I've seen:

1. Hourly ($60–$120/hr, billed in 15-min blocks)
2. Flat fee per job type ($50 setup on anything custom)
3. Buried — design is "free" but the sign price is padded

Each has problems. Hourly scares customers, flat undercharges on revision-happy clients, buried trains people that design is worthless.

What's your system, and what do you do when revision #6 rolls in?

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