Hello Joel, It’s hard to find a right detail quotation in China. For the budgeting section, I think this is almost like cost accounting. So I try to account it myself. For example: 30m2 office on good location, 2 people. And my objective is cost-recovering in 3 years then starts to win profits The design cost should include “hardware cost/software cost”, “the overhead costs” and “cost of human resources”.
Hardware cost/software cost (first 3 years, 720days) PROJECT
PRICE
Price/day
¥28,000 ¥8,000
¥40 ¥12
¥20,000
¥24
¥5,680
¥10
¥10,000
¥14
¥7,500
¥11
¥1500 /Year ¥300 /300M/Year ¥50 /Year
¥7 ¥2 ¥0.5
¥3,000 ¥1,000 ¥200 (¥100x2) ¥1,000 Total Price:
¥5 ¥2 ¥0.5 ¥2 ¥130
Hardware
Mac Pro + Apple Care 20-inch Apple Cinema Display + Apple Care PC x 2
Software Adobe Studio Adobe
Photoshop(R)
CS2 、 Illustrator(R)
CS2 、 InDesign(R) CS2 、 GoLive(R) CS2 和 Acrobat(R) 7.0 Professional
Apple Studio Final Cut Pro 5 、 Soundtrack Pro 、 Motion 2 、DVD Studio Pro 4、Compressor 2.
Macromedia Studio 8 Dreamweaver® 8 、 Flash Professional 8 、 Fireworks® 8 、Contribute™ 3 、FlashPaper™ 2
Web Service Internet Studio Website Hosting Studio Website Domain Name (.com)
Others
Printer Scanner Telephone Fax
(¥16.25/Hr)
The overhead costs PROJECT
PRICE
Price/day
Rent Electric Telephone Water A4 Paper Others
¥5000/month ¥300/month ¥100/month ¥60/month ¥100/month ¥500 Total price
¥250 ¥15 ¥5 ¥3 ¥5 ¥25 ¥298 (¥38/HR)
Cost of human resources Cost of human resources should include “education cost” and “experience cost”. Here we just use university graduate. For example, my education cost. PROJECT
PRICE
Price/day
Animator Interface designer Sound Designer Programmer Project Manager
¥200,000/3years ¥200,000/3years ¥200,000/3years ¥93,800/5years ¥400,000/4years
¥280 ¥280 ¥280 ¥80 ¥400
According to 40% profits, the cost of human resources should be PROJECT Price/Hr Animator Interface designer Sound Designer Programmer Project Manager
¥50 ¥50 ¥50 ¥14 ¥70
Here is the cost which I add all the things above.
Studio Cost Qty
Hrs
Price/Hr
Total Cost
Project Project Manager
1
160
70
2,800
Animation Interface Designer Animator Audio Designer
1 1 1
32 40 40
50 50 50
1,600 2,000 2,000
1 1 1
32 32 8
14 14 70
448 448 560
160 160
16.25 38
2,600 6,080
Program As Programmer ASP programmer Test controller
Studio Hardware cost/software cost The overhead costs
TOTAL COST: RMB¥
23,936
As we see, studio cost is also a big cost of the whole project. The quotation should including all of them and plus 40% profits, and project manager in charges of all the things, so I add studio cost on project manager.
Here is the quotation which I will give to client.
Quotation Qty
Hrs
Price/Hr
Total Cost
Project Project Manager
1
160
170
27,200
Animation Interface Designer Animator Audio Designer
1 1 1
32 40 40
70 70 70
2,240 2,800 2,800
1 1 1
32 32 8
20 20 170
640 640 1,360
Program As Programmer ASP programmer Test controller
TOTAL COST: RMB¥
37,680