Typical pricing guide
A quick and dirty guide to what things cost.
As a larger boutique agency offering many custom services, our pricing runs from $550 custom quick fixes through to clients contracted in the hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. These are our more common fee structures.
Casual hourly rates
Many staff, multiple departments, one rate card.
Depending on the task at hand, a general guide to casual rates. Talk to us about engaging Shipwreck Studio under contract for discounted hourly rates.
- $220 to $330 / hourRick Moore
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- Consulting
- Project management
- Coding
- Hosting infrastructure engineering
- Business development
- Post-hack forensics
- $99 to $176 / hourSenior staff
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- Coders
- Graphic designers
- Video editors
- Hosting managers
- Department heads
- Web developers
- Mobile app developers
- $77 to $99 / hourGeneral staff
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- Admin
- SEOs
- SMM assistants
- Content writers
Web page builds
What a website typically costs.
- $7.7kEntry-level small business site
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A typical build cost for a small business web page. Many feature options can increase that depending on your needs.
- $16.5k to $55kBusiness sites with specific needs
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More likely for a business with any kind of specific needs or custom work requirements.
- $100k and upCustom database-driven platforms
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Typical on larger projects with higher-level custom functionality, our in-house specialty. We are veterans of integrated systems for government and private contracts well into the $400k space, integrated by API with your other systems.
Hosting and support
Hosting, support and servers.
- $1,100 / yearAdvanced Australian managed hosting
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Typical price, now bundled into the Small Business Site Care Plan from $2,200 a year.
- $1,100 / yearMinimal support contract
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Typical entry price for occasional on-call service to add, update, modify, design and maintain your site.
- $1,100 to $4,400 / monthBare metal managed server, per box
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Typical running costs per month; varies with licensing, tech stack, hardware and data centre choices.
- $10k to $20k / boxBare metal server purchase and setup
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One-time cost for a physical server you own outright.
Monthly ongoing support and dev teams
A managed team for the cost of one in-house employee.
Where your employee may be a jack of all trades covering your digital needs, your Shipwreck team leader assigns each task to the person with the right skill set. Today a JavaScript coder, tomorrow PHP, the next day a graphic designer, then an SEO or a researcher. No problem.
Pricing questions
Are these fixed prices?
No. This page is a quick and honest guide to our common fee structures. Every project is quoted in writing before work starts; hourly rates apply to small, open-ended jobs.
Do you offer discounted hourly rates?
Yes, for clients who engage Shipwreck Studio under contract. Talk to us about a monthly support or development team contract.
What is the smallest job you take?
Custom quick fixes start around $550. There is no job too small for an existing client.
Is GST included?
Figures on this page are ex GST unless stated.
Get a real quote.
Prices on this page are guides. Send the brief and we will quote it properly, in writing.