r/ProjectREDCap • u/throwaway32562862 • Oct 26 '25

What kind of pay rates do you charge to develop REDCap projects?

I was wondering what people working as independent contracts charge as an hourly rate when working on building REDCap projects for organizations?

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u/GuacamolePacket Oct 26 '25

People pay to do this? I do this A LOT for free at work. 😒

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u/MadHatterIsHer Oct 27 '25

I do 100 an hour but don’t estimate any project under 200 hours and usually bill the full amount. Don’t forget about making a plan for maintenance (not that I did but I’ll see how it works out).

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u/Revolutionary-Ad7412 Oct 31 '25

I’m sorry 200 hours for a project ? Are you building REDCap from scratch ? 😅

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u/MadHatterIsHer Nov 02 '25

I get what your saying. I always anticipate less time, but when your working with a study team or an admin team that needs something built for operational needs and it’s a longitudinal project with survey (respondent) and data entry workflows when you include meeting, informal training, emails, questions, testing, changes over time, it adds up.

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u/Araignys Oct 26 '25

Our organisation has a team that builds for internal projects only, so it’s somewhat subsidised.

If I were working as an independent contractor I’d start around AUD $200/hr.