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CarynClark · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:25 am Post subject: per word rates

I know we've discussed this quite a bit, but I must royally stink at searching the forums b/c I couldn't find the threads.

I have a series of ten tutorials (with sub-sections in some of them) to do totaling around 6K - 8k words. They are for internal use with corporations... they are software tutorials. There could be possible ongoing work with this company. They said they usually pay $.15/word. It seems a little low to me. I'm thinking more $.20/word. What's the "going" rate?
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Jeffrey Kafer · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:35 am Post subject:

15 cents per word is on par with what I would quote them.
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asnively · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:24 am Post subject:

I charge .30 per word for projects under 2000 words,
.25 for projects up to 4000 words,
.20 a word for projects up to 10,000 words...

And I've never had a project longer than that!
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Claire Dodin · Club 300 Joined: 15 Feb 2008 Posts: 392 Location: Sunny LA

For 8K words I would ask for $0,20 and probably accept $0,15.
It's not unreasonable.
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Mandy Nelson · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:27 am Post subject:

.20 is good if you can get it but for that length I, too, would go for .15.
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bobsouer · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:44 pm Post subject:

Caryn,

I'm with most of the others here. I would ask for twenty to twenty-five cents a word, but would accept fifteen cents.

(edited to fix typo)
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todd ellis · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:01 pm Post subject:

i have amy's rate sheet tacked to my wall. so, i'm with her too.
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Lizden · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:49 pm Post subject:

Yeah...it's a tad low, but reasonable.

Taking the high number: 8000 words x $0.15 = $1200
8000 words / 150 words per minute is about 54 finished minutes.
Will take about 2 hours to record & 4 hours to edit = 6 hours total
= $200 per hour.

Taking the high number: 8000 words x $0.20 = $1600
8000 words / 150 words per minute is about 54 finished minutes.
Will take about 2 hours to record & 4 hours to edit = 6 hours total
= $266 per hour.

...and so on.....

Of course if you edit or record faster, the per hour number will go up, but those are the averages I use when I quote.

Best of luck!

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Bruce · Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:26 am Post subject:

Yeah, .15 to .20 is a good range, unless you see a lot of words like antidisestablishmentarianism, or floccinaucinihilipilification, or Shakespeare's classic honorificabilitudinitatibus ... then I think more like .25 ... at least for those words.

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CarynClark · Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:33 am Post subject:

Thank you ALL!!

Yes, it was Amy's price points that I was looking for when searching the threads. SO glad you chimed in, Amy... and all. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
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tackerman · Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:53 am Post subject:

Bruce, you kill me.

Lee Gordon · Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:31 am Post subject:

I would just charge $1000 for the first word and all the remaining words are free.
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bobsouer · Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:33 am Post subject:

Lee,

That's the ticket! Laugh

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Darren Altman · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 6:24 am Post subject:

Another great and extremely helpful thread. Thanks for all your replies.

I got contacted by a lady in The States a couple of days ago asking me to do a 14,000 word narration. I think the money was $1900 or £1250, from what I recall, but I turned it down and said that long narrations aren't my forte, so I think I should pass on this one. Shame, as she replied saying that she really liked my voice.

I know my limits! The most I've ever had to read was for a 15 minute documentary, so I think that to edit 14,000 words and take out all the "for f%cks sake Darren, get it together!!" would just be too much work! Wink

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