Our hourly and day rates for project resources is based on what creative or technical expertise is required for the project. For that reason, we don't publish a fixed labor rate card. You can typically expect our rates to be between 20% and 40% lower than our competitors, sometimes more than that. On projects with 4 or more dedicated resources, we do not charge for Project Management time. When we initially estimate the cost of a project, we have an internal brainstorming exercise to compare and contrast the different team configurations and technical approaches in order to identify which will yield the best results at the lowest cost. This exercise explores any "build versus buy" options, alternative technical approaches, and team composition variations in order to ultimately recommend the most cost effective approach for your project.
As a New York App Lab customer, you have options. We are happy to discuss both fixed price and time & materials pricing options for your project. If you want to go with a T&M engagement, we're happy to use hourly or day rates. We've worked with plenty of companies in the past that rounded every client interaction UP to the nearest quarter-hour when invoicing, and we detest this practice. When we invoice on our hourly T & M projects, New York App Lab rounds our time DOWN, and by 1/2 hour increments, ensuring that our customers incur the fairest possible costs. Being fair and reasonable is important to us. We also welcome fixed price projects, too, and we base our fixed price quotes on the lowest reasonable time estimate that we feel comfortable with.
Everything in life is a negotiation. If you have a project in mind but think there's no way you could afford it, talk to us. We will do everything we can to help find a solution that keeps within your budget constraints.