How would you charge for this job?

[mikehende]

Hey guys, someone offered me this job but I have no idea what I should charge for it and the person doesn't know what the job is worth:

So I will like a list of 200 catholic schools with in a 30 miles radius from the zip code 11367 done on Excel. I will like the Name of the school, address, city, state and zip to be in there own column. I want to mail merge the excel list to MS and print it out on envelopes that I can send out.

This would involve both research and data entry, any idea what you guys would charge for this please? Also, not sure how I would search google for that 30 mile radius fro m that zip code?

 

[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

I am not sure what it is that you are trying to do, Mike.
What does this mean?

I will like a list of 200 catholic schools

I will like the Name of the school, address, city, state and zip

 

[mikehende]

Sorry, the guy has a cleaning service and he wants to mail his services out to 200 catholic schools with that 30 mile radius from that zip code and wants me to compile all school's info into an excel file.

 

[Tony D]

I have a fee I charge for office work. I use it when doing any work that would typically be done by an assistant in someone's place of business.

One of my customers is a recruiter. He gets excel files from some company with names and addresses of people in whatever profession he's recruiting for. I turn them into Avery labels for mailing envelopes.

How do you determine what that fee should be? Rule of thumb is to determine what someone working full time at the an agency would be paid. Include vacation and other benefits such as medical insurance. You should also figure in vacation pay. Then figure you'll be working on their job 70% of the time while spending the other 30% on overhead. Then you should add the 7% tax you pay be being self-employed.

Let's say you determine an office worker makes $25/hr. At 40 hrs/week and 52 weeks/yr, that's 2080 hrs/yr or $52,000. Add $5K in benefits and we're up to $57K. Divide by .7 and we have $39/hr. Add in the 7% tax and you're at $42.75/hr roughly. Note: I didn't consider vacation or sick pay in that calculation. You can make the adjustment by figuring they work 48 hrs/yr instead of 52 hrs.

 

[mikehende]

Thanks, thing is do you charge per hour one flat project fee for this?

 

[Tony D]

Depends. That's your call.

 

[mikehende]

So roughly $50 per hour, if a flat project fee then $100? Also, how would I use google or other source to search from that zip code within a 30 mile radius, any ideas please?

 

[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

Also, how would I use google or other source to search from that zip code within a 30 mile radius, any ideas please?

I would search the Catholic Directory. You can Google the one for your immediate area.

 

[mikehende]

Yes but I would need some way to filter the 30 mile radius. Either way I googled catholic schools for queens but now way near 200 schools

 

[Tony D]

zip code

 

[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

Offhand, the only way that I can think of to gather the names is the Catholic Directory for Queens.

 

[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

zip code

That's another great way. Did not think of that one.

 

[mikehende]

Doesn't help really, I told the guy best I go by city located closest to queens so brooklyn and long island

 

[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

The Catholic directory was no help for you?

 

[Mommalina]

How about asking the pastor of the nearest Catholic church, or
better yet, the Archdiocese of that community for help getting
that information?

 

[mikehende]

The catholic directory just did not cover all areas I think.

Mommalina, haven't seen you around in ages but that's a great idea, thanks!

 

[Mommalina]

Glad to help, Mike. And nice to see you here. I may not
post often, but I do try to check in frequently.

 

[mikehende]

Great to run into you again!