A client came accross my website (most probably through google
as I did some SEO to my website) and just contacted me, he's
looking for an ASP.NET developer for some project. The problem
is that I didn't do any serious freelance work here before and
have no idea how much I should charge.  The problem is that if I
try to be competitive and give a low rate they could think I'm a
bad developer, on the other hand if I give a high rate they
could go to others with lower rates, what's a good and
reasonable rate for a freelance developer in Sydney, Australia?
Many thanks in advance ...   The main IT professional Job site
in Australia is seek.com.au have a look at the contract jobs in
there, you should get a feel for it depending on the contract
length, experience etc.  If I had to guess I would say in this
economic climate somewhere in the range $50 - $80 per hour would
be around average for an experienced dev.   That's a bit
localized. You need to check out the Sydney rags (I'm originally
from Melbourne so I'd be