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LA Promo editing – hard to go out for less the $600/day. That’s at the client’s facility. I never work hourly. Day rate or a flat fee based on a week or more. Me on my system at my place on my own schedule: varies wildly, usually a flat rate. Edit and produce: more than $600, for sure. But less than hiring a writer/producer and editor separately.
I would expect a camera operator + camera + minimal portable 3-point lighting to go for no less than $1000 a day plus another 500-600 for a first assistant.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “[Shawn Miller] “In the past, it wasn’t that unusual for companies like that to pay several thousand dollars a day to produce simple, short, talking head videos. [breaking in here, reality just broke] Obviously those days are gone, but (luckily) the notion that these videos have value has remained. So for many of them, $1000.00 for a full day of video production work isn’t that big of a deal.”
oh good baby jesus. does anyone under forty in london want to get in on this one.
where are. my. cufflinks.”
lol – I could show you invoices that would BLOW.YOUR.MIND! 🙂
Shawn
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The client was Showtime and it was all done in good fun, but it certainly got the point across. Designers just poking at each other.
Though I like your version with the money materialising (with the s instead of a z). Makes it seem more classieriest.
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[Scott Witthaus] “located in the Seattle area”
When I was starting out editing in the Seattle area in the mid-90’s, I got $25/hour which very quickly went to $35/hour. Microsoft (as one example) paid around $300/day in the late 90’s (to start). Now I get anywhere from $500/day to $700/day for corporate gigs (“8” hour day). A common hourly is $65 to $75/hour. I’ve heard of editors who are making higher day rates… but I like my clients, I can work from home for the most part, and the income is good relative to the cost of living up here (at least for where I live).
I’m probably a bit too zen about marketing myself and pushing my hourly rate.
I don’t shoot much anymore, but $2500/day is the most common day rate I have heard recently amongst the pros I know (depending upon the camera). Don’t know what the low end does these days.
James
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Thanks all!
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
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Feck. I need to move. Rates are still about £250-300/day for broadcast editors in the UK, same as they were 10 years ago – at least in my experience – but it’s hard to gauge because we don’t talk about nasty topics like what you earn in the UK…
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