Work From Home is the new hot trend in the COVID era. After my 20+ years in freelancing over the Internet, you’re all finally catching up to me. Good (at least I think so)! For freelancer content writers who are just starting out, the #1 most common question I see asked is about how to set rates.
I’m going to try to tell you in the clearest possible way how to set your rates as a freelance writer.
How Much To Charge For Freelance Content Writing? (short answer)
The short answer to how much to charge is a simple formula:
- a: Your rate per word
- b: How many words you can write per hour (reasonably)
If A x B = a decent hourly wage for where you live, that’s a reasonable rate to charge. As a basic rule of thumb.
There’s a lot of fudge factors that affect this number, however. The content you will be writing may be faster or slower going due to the need for extensive research. The amount of non-writing effort you have to put into the project (spreadsheets, managing WordPress, communicating with the client’s team, etc.) may take up some time worth billing for too.
If I’m just raw typing on a subject I already know pretty well, I can easily do 500 words per hour. Nitpicky research, needing to format things in HTML, having to provide images, those slow me down to an average of about ~200 wph. By that point, I tend to bill by the hour instead.
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