Instructional Design
What to charge? How to calculate?
As an individual about to enter the field of Instructional Design, I am trying figure what to charge for services. There are so many questions and ways to calculate these services. I have provided a few helpful links and resources please enjoy.
The link above provides some various costs to estimating training costs.
The link above is to goldmine of blog. Its budgeting and planning down in manageable terms with some simple examples that transition to more difficult projects. The site also provides links to additional resources some of which contain some great budgeting tools.
The link above was truly a find. The page is filled with articles, tools, videos, and more for The Project Management Minimalist. Yes it is by the one and only author we have grown to love of the book The project Management Minimalist: just enough PM to Rock Your Project!
Hi Barbara,
ReplyDeleteThat is a really good question and area to focus. When I was doing my budget for our project I was trying to figure out how much a PM makes in each scenario, but it can vary depending on the field and your amount of expertise in that area. I went online and did some job searches on monster.com, but the amount of job openings was a little overwhelming. I actually went on to salaries.com and found an area on there that gives rough estimates of how much a project manager makes in each specific field. The website is http://www1.salary.com/Project-Manager-Salary.html. It gives some nice charts and short descriptions of each field for project management.
References:
Salaries.com (n.d.) Project Manager Salaries. Retrieved on February 5, 2013 from http://www1.salary.com/Project-Manager-Salary.html
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ReplyDeleteBarbara,
ReplyDeleteThese are all very helpful resources. I especially appreciate the "Estimating Costs and Time in Instructional Design" site. This is a useful item for those who are new to the ID Project Management field. As you mentioned, it's often difficult to figure out what the charge should be for project management services when just getting your feet wet, so this guideline is a keeper.
Here's the link to another resource I discovered online that offers a project management fee chart, based on a percentage of the overall project budget:
http://www.fpm.iastate.edu/planning/capital_planning_process/fees.asp