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Estimating Hours with Risk Buffer: The Math Freelancers Skip

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Estimating Hours with Risk Buffer: The Math Freelancers Skip After you've broken down a project into tasks and scored them by complexity, the next step is converting those scores into actual hours. This is where most freelancers either lowball themselves or add a vague "buffer" that bears no relati…

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    Estimating Hours with Risk Buffer: The Math Freelancers Skip

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