If you were looking for a reasonably simple *custom* cms (ignore for the moment that you could probably do the job with Joomla, WP, Mambo and a lot of time fiddling with mods) that could be used by an average business user with little or no training, how much would you be willing to pay ? <$100 $100 - $499 >$500
To have "little or no training" would mean a good editing interface ... equals >$500 to me. Pre WordPress though, I found some good cgi scripts for editing within a page ... so that figure would be <$100 -- but assuming the site is built and no other pages need adding. But a fully fledged CMS with adding, deleting and editing pages and media -- definitely above the $500 mark.