Advertising

  • Advertising copywriting: $140|hour, $2500 & up full page ad.
  • Advertorial: $150|hour, 2.00|word.
  • Book Jacket copywriting: $140|hour, 1.00|word, $1200 & up per project (front cover jacket plus flaps and back jacket copy summary).
  • Campaign development or product launch: $110|word, $3500 & up per project.
  • Catalog copywriting: $130 - $210|hour or $500 - 1200 per item.
  • Copyediting for advertising: $110 to $200|hour, 1.00|word and up.
  • Direct mail copywriting: $130 - $210|hour; $1.00 - $2.00|word, $3500 & up.
  • Direct mail packages: $110 - $180|hour; $1250.00 & up|project (complexity based); additional charges for desktop publishing, addressing, may be assessed. Pricing includes direct mail letters, response cards, and advertising materials.
  • Direct mail production: $105 - $150|hour.
  • Email ad copywriting: $130 - $210|hour, $1.00 – 2.00|word, $1000 & up per project.
  • Event promotions/publicity: $150 - $250|hour; $1000 & up|day.
  • Fundraising campaign brochure: : $2200 - $8500 for research (20 hours) and copywriting (30 hours); $7500.00 and up for major campaign brochure, including research, writing and production (50 hours).
  • Political campaigns, public relations: $150 - $200|hour, $3500 & up per project.
  • Press kits: $140 - $220 | hour, 1.50|word and up, $3500 & up per project.
  • Press-news release: $140 - $220|hour; $500 & up per page.
  • Print advertisement: $1000 & up per project.
  • Product information: $110 - $180 | hour; $960 & up per day, $300 & up per page.
  • Promotions: $140 - $220 | hour (writing and editing promotional copy); additional fees for production, mailings, etc.
  • Public relations for business: $180|hour, $1000 & up per day.
  • Public relations for government: $175 - $225|hour.
  • Public relations for organizations and non-profits: $150 - $200|hour.
  • Public relations for schools and libraries: $140 – 175|hour.
  • Sales and service brochures: $130 - $180|hour.
  • Sales letters: $2|word; $130 - $180|hour; $500 & up per project.
  • Speech editing and writing: $140 - $220|hour, $3500 & up per project.
  • Speech writing for government officials: $140 – 220|hour, $3700 & up per 20 minutes.
  • Speech writing for political candidates: $150 – 250|hour, $2500 & up per 15 minutes.


Audiovisuals and Electronic Communications

  • Book summaries (narrative synopsis) for film producers: $3000 & up|30 minutes/$35|per page to $4000 & up|60 minutes/$30|per page.
  • Business film scripts (training and informational): $150 - $240|hour, $1100 & up per project, $500 & up per run minute.
  • Copyediting audiovisuals: $110 - $200|hour, $50 & up per page.
  • Corporate product film: $180 – $250|hour, $500 & up run minute.
  • Educational/training film scripts: $180 - $250|hour, $500 & up run minute.
  • Movie novelization: $150 - $250|hour, $6000 & up per project.
  • Radio commercials/PSAs: $130 - $210|hour, $600 & up per run minute.
  • Radio editorials & essays: $130 - $210|hour, $600 & up per run minute.
  • Radio interviews: $800 & up per 3 minute interview.
  • Radio stories: $800 & up per hour.
  • Screenwriting: $50,000 & up per project.
  • Script synopsis for agent or film producer: $350 - $1500|project.
  • Script synopsis for business: $140 - $220|hour, $650 - $1800|project.
  • Scripts for nontheatrical films: $130 - $210|hour, $4500 & up per project, $500 & up per run minute.
  • TV Commercials/PSAs: $150 - $250|hour, $3500 & up per project, $500 & up per run minute.
  • TV news story/feature: $150 - $250|hour.
  • TV scripts (nontheatrical): $150 – 250|hour, $12,500 & up per project, $700 & up per day.
  • TV scripts (teleplay/MOW): $500 & up run minute.

Book and Manuscript Publishing

  • Abstracting and abridging: $100 - $180|hour; $1.50 - $2.00|word.
  • Anthology editing: Advance 3% to 15% of royalties; $7500 & up per project.
  • Book jacket copywriting: $140|hour, 1.00|word, $1200 & up per project (front cover jacket plus flaps and back jacket copy summary). $
  • Book proposal consultation: $150 - $300|hour, $1200 & up per project.
  • Book proposal writing: $150 - $220|hour, $1000 & up per project, 2.00|word (fees contingent upon client provision of information verses writer research and if a sample chapter is provided).
  • Book query critique: $130 - $180|hour, $850 & up per project.
  • Book query writing: $500 & up per project.
  • Book summaries for book clubs: $500 - $1250 | book.
  • Children’s book writing (advance against royalties): $5000 & up per project.
  • Children’s book writing (work for hire): $150 - $275|hour, $1.00 - $4.00 per word.
  • Content editing (scholarly): $125 - $225|hour, $700 & up per project, $4.00 & up per page, $60 - $100|hour (trade), $2000 & up per project.
  • Copyediting: $110 - $200|hour, $7.00 - $14.00 per page.
  • Fiction book writing: $15000& up per project.
  • Ghostwriting with credit: $130 - $210|hour, $6000 & up per project, advance plus percentage of royalties for as told to projects; experts or celebrities higher at $180 - $280|hour (self-publishing-one-fourth down payment, one-fourth when half-finished, one-fourth at three-quarters mark, and final fourth upon completion.)
  • Ghostwriting without credit: $140 - $225|hour, $7500 & up per project.
  • Indexing: $100 - $150 | hour; $2 - $6|indexable page.
  • Manuscript evaluation and critique: $120 – 200|hour, $350 & up per story, $140 - $225 | hour trade books.
  • Non-fiction book writing (collaborative): $140 – $220|hour, $10000 & up per project.
  • Non-fiction book writing (advance against royalties): $10000 & up per project.
  • Novel synopsis (general): $140 - $220|hour, $1200 & up per project, $25 - $50 per page.
  • Proofreading: $100 - $200|hour, $3.00 & up per page.
  • Research for writers or book publishers: $110 - $180|hour, $800 & up per day.
  • Movie novelization: $7,000 - $17,000 | depends on amount of work to complete and time length.
  • Page layout (desktop publishing and camera-ready copy): For 1000 dots per inch type, $110 - $200|hour camera-ready straight type; $150 - $250|camera-ready page with illustrations, maps, tables, charts, photos; $175 - $275 | camera-ready page for oversize pages with art. Additional fees for graphics, number of photos, and amount of copy to be typeset.
  • Production editing/project management: $120 - $210 | hour.
  • Rewriting: $130 - $180|hour.
  • Summaries for book clubs and/or catalogues: $130 - $210 | hour.
  • Textbooks: $140 - $220 | hour.
  • Translation (fiction): 15˘|word & up.
  • Translation (nonfiction): 25˘|word & up.
  • Translation (poetry): $10.50 per page & up.
  • Typesetting: $10|page, $110 & up per hour - complex data input may have additional fee structure.


Business Writing

  • Annual Reports: $120 - $200|hour; $6000 & up per project | hour (brief report with some economic data and figure explanations).
  • Association and organizational writing: $140 - $225|hour.
  • Brochures, fliers, booklets for business: $2200 - $8500 for research (20 hours) and copywriting (30 hours); $7500.00 and up for major campaign brochure, including research, writing and production (50 hours).
  • Book summaries for businesses: $130 - $210 | hour.
  • Business editing: $110 - $200 | hour.
  • Business and sales letters: $2|word; $120 - $120|hour; $300 & up per project.
  • Business and government research: $120 - $180/hour.
  • Business plan: $150 - $220|hour, $2000 & |project, $1.00 & up per word - rates vary for extensive research (see research fees).
  • Business writing seminars: $180 - $225|hour, $750 & up per day up for half-day/$1400 - full-day seminar, plus travel expenses.
  • Catalogs for business catalogs$120 - $200 | hour; desktop publishing, tables, charts, may require additional fees.

Business Writing, continued

  • Consultation on communications: $125 - $215|hour, $950 & up per day.
  • Corporate histories: $140 - $220|hour, $4500 & up per project, $1.75 & up per word.
  • Commercial reports: $140 - $220|hour.
  • Consumer complaint letter answering: $150 - $300|letter.
  • Copyediting for business: $110 - $180|hour, $3.50 pr. page.
  • Corporate periodicals, editing: $110 - $180|hour.
  • Corporate periodicals, writing: $140 - $220|hour; $2500 & up per project, $1.75 - $2.00|word.
  • Corporate profile: $140 - $220|hour, $1.75 - $2.00|word.
  • Financial presentation: $6500.00 - $8500.00 | 20-30 minute presentation.
  • Fundraising campaign brochure: $2200 - $8500 for research (20 hours) and copywriting (30 hours); $7500.00 and up for major campaign brochure, including research, writing and production (50 hours).
  • Ghostwriting for business (trade magazine articles or business column): $175 - $250|hour, $8500 & up per project.
  • Government research: $120 - $180/hour.
  • Government writing: $140 - $220|hour.
  • Grant proposal writing for nonprofit: $130 - $220|hour; flat fee negotiation at $4200 & up.
  • Indexing for professional journals: $110 - $180|hour.
  • Industrial/service business training manual: $140 - $220|hour.
  • Job application letters: $150 - $300|letter.
  • Manuals/documentation: $140 - $220|hour.
  • Manuscript editing/evaluations for trade journals: $110 - $180|hour
  • Market research survey reports: $120 - $200|hour; $1050 & up per day; $6000 & up per project.


Computer, Scientific, and Technical

  • Abstracting, CD ROM: $100|hour.
  • Abstracting, online: $105 - $130|hour.
  • Computer documentation, general print: $120 - $200|hour, $100 & up per page.
  • Computer documentation, online: $120 - $2000|hour.
  • Demonstration software: $140|up per hour.
  • Legal-government editing: $110 - $180|hour.
  • Legal-government writing: $140 - $220|hour.
  • Medical and science editing: $120 - $190|hour.
  • Medical and science proofreading: $90 - $150|hour.
  • Medical and science writing: $150 - $230|hour.
  • Online editing: $110 - $180|hour.
  • Software manual writing: $140 - $220|hour.
  • Technical editing: $110 - $180 | hour; $800 & up per day.
  • Technical typesetting: $10|page, $55 & up per hour - complex data input may have additional fee structure.
  • Technical writing: $150 - $250|hour, $50.00 & up per page.
  • Webpage design: $125 - $190|hour.
  • Webpage editing and writing: $125 - $190|hour, $300 & up per page.

Editorial and Design Packages

  • Business catalogs: $120 - $200 | hour; desktop publishing, tables, charts, may require additional fees.
  • Desktop publishing: For 1000 dots per inch type, $140 - $190|hour camera-ready straight type; $150 - $210|camera-ready page with illustrations, maps, tables, charts, photos; $160 - $220 | camera-ready page for oversize pages with art. Additional fees for graphics, number of photos, and amount of copy to be typeset.
  • Greeting cards (with art): $300 & up per project.
  • Newsletters, abstracting: $100|hour.
  • Newsletters, desktop publishing: $130 - $220|hour; contingent upon level of data, scanning photographs, advertising layouts, illustrations or designs (editorials charged extra).
  • Newsletters, editing: $110 - $180 | hour; $500 & up per issue; $1.00 & up per word.
  • Newsletters, writing: $140 - $220 | hour; $500 & up per issue; $300 | up per page.
  • Photo brochures: $800 & up|flat fee photos and writing.
  • Photography: $250 - $1500|bw photo; $175 - $1300|color photo.
  • Picture editing: $100 - $200|hour, $100 - $600|picture.
  • Slides: $100 - $180|hour, $800 & up per project, $100 & up per slide.


Educational & Literary Services

  • Educational consulting and designing business/adult education courses: $140 - $220|hour, $1100 & up per day.
  • Educational grant and proposal writing: $140 - $220|hour, $3000 & up per project.
  • Manuscript evaluation for thesis/dissertations: $100 - $180|hour, $800 & up per project.
  • Poetry manuscript critique: $110 - $200|hour.
  • Presentations at national conventions (well-known authors): $1250 - $8000|hour, $3500 & up per event.
  • Presentations at regional writers’ conferences: $800 & up per event.
  • Presentations to local groups, librarians or teachers: $400 & up per event.
  • Presentations to school classes: $negotiable.
  • Newsletters, abstracting: $110|hour.
  • Newsletters, desktop publishing: $120 - $180|hour; contingent upon level of data, scanning photographs, advertising layouts, illustrations or designs (editorials charged extra).
  • Newsletters, editing: $110 - $200 | hour; $2500 & up per issue; $1.50 & up per word.
  • Newsletters, writing: $140 - $220 | hour; $1100 & up per issue; $300 | up per page.
  • Readings by poets, fiction writers: $150 & up for event (can be $2k and up).
  • Short story manuscript critique: $120 – 200|hour, $350 & up per story.
  • Teaching college course/seminar: $180 - $225|hour, $1400 & up per day.
  • Writers’ Workshops: $150 - $210|hour, $1200 & up per project.
  • Writing for scholarly journals: $140 - $220|hour, $450 - $850 & up per article.


Government and Private Sector Procurement

  • Executive summaries: $140 - $220|hour, $1000 & up per project.
  • Conference planning: $150 - $250|hour.
  • Diagrams and graphics: $120 - $180|hour.
  • Ghosting: $150 - $250|hour.
  • Initial consultation: $free.
  • Management oversight: $180 - $250|hour, $1400 per day & up.
  • Plans writing: $140 - $220|hour.
  • Proofreading: $100 - $150|hour, $3.00 & up per page.
  • Proposal editing: $110 - $200|hour.
  • Proposal writing: $140 - $220|hour.
  • Research: $120 - $200|hour.
  • Templates: $140 - $220|hour, $1400 & up per project.
  • Sales and service brochures: $150 - $250|hour.
  • Sales letters: $2|word; $120 - $120|hour; $300 & up per project.
  • Speech editing and writing: $130 - $210|hour, $2200 & up per project.
  • Speech writing for government officials: $140 – 220|hour, $2500 & up per 20 minutes.
  • Speech writing for political candidates: $150 – 250|hour, $2700 & up per 15 minutes.


Magazines & Trade Journals

  • Article manuscript critique: $60 - $100|hour.
  • Arts reviewing: $150 - $300 per project, .20 – 1.00|word.
  • Book reviews: $75 - $500 per project, .25 – 1.00|word.
  • City magazine, calendar of events column: $75 - $250|column.
  • Consultation on magazine editorial: $90 - $150|hour, $450 & up per day.
  • Consumer magazine feature article: $75 - $2500|column.
  • Content editing: $45 - $125|hour, $2500 & up per issue.
  • Copyediting magazines: $110 - $200|hour, $7.00 - $14.00 per page.
  • Fact checking: $100 - $150|hour.
  • Ghostwriting articles: $175 - $250|hour, $1500 & up per project, $2.00 per word.
  • Magazine research: $120 - $200|hour, $500 & up per item.
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