How to charge for any coding request?

<p id="isPasted">Supply and demand. Charge as much as you can without gouging the customer. You don’t say where you are so I can’t tell you in shekels, so you’ll have to figure that out for yourself.</p><p>Have a standard hourly rate, set a little high, and then give the customer a discount to get back to a reasonable price and make them feel like they got something.</p><p>A business transaction is a contract between two entities who are each trying to get as much as they can for a little as possible. They want code, you want money. If they don’t want to give it, you don’t want to do it. So there has to be a compromise to make you attractive to them. You don’t want to price yourself out of business.</p><p>And the more you charge, the better quality your work has to be to be worth that amount. Your talents are worthless if no one will hire you, and if you are just starting out you want that word-of-mouth reference to get more work. You want your reputation as a problem solver to increase with every job you do. One bad reference can ruin a career, so make sure whatever you charge you are taking care of your customers, or there may be none to take care of.</p>