Industry Rate Card

[Bob Zelin]

R]ebels turned self-conscious drones

REPLY –
this sums up my life ! I was a “rebel”, but I bow down to my clients, and so, because I cannot take it out on my clients, I take it out on you Richard ! The client says “do this” and I “do this”.
I just want to keep collecting those checks, so I say “yes master” just like a drone. see – even when you are self employed – you have to answer to the boss (your clients).

Bob Zelin

[Richard Herd]

Thought you might like that one. It’s a great novel, too, if you haven’t read it!

[Mick Haensler]

[Bob Zelin] “because I cannot take it out on my clients, I take it out on you Richard”

Terminal constipation is an ugly thing. And please, change your Avatar, your scarin’ the children…

Mick Haensler
Higher Ground Media

[Richard Herd]

Might I offer another literary reference with regard to Bob’s personality? Lilliputian. AND there’s a particular satirical point with regard to Little Endian and Big Endian. The Lilliputians quarreled whether to break an egg from the little end or the big end, and audio engineers do a similar thing!!

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RMH

[Milton Hockman]

When I started going full-service freelance I did what a previous poster advised…”Call around to various production houses in your area and run a project by them for a quote. That will tell you where your rates fall.”

Its very important that you determine what your base costs of operations are. You need to charge a rate that incorporates costs, overhead and profit. If you don’t know those numbers you need to find out. There’s a good book out there about it, but basically you add up your rents, insurances, machine costs, salaries, etc. and divide by estimated billable hours worked in a week. This gives you your base cost to pay bills. Anything above that is profit.

Tip…as full-time freelancer or small studio, doing the math, you’ll have to charge at least $75 an hour…. and that’s for a one person designer working from home!

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