Hey I have a question for Erin and others. I've been asked if I would do some editing for a friend (or rather, for a client of hers), and I was wondering what the going rate was for that kind of freelance work.

If you don't want to talk that kind of specifics here, feel free to email me directly at my profile address.

thanks

Editorial Freelancers' Association standard rate sheet: [link]

Note that I'm insanely jealous of y'all for even having an organization with its shit together like this!

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Just brainstorming.

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Thanks amych, that's very helpful. I figure I've been editing this friends stuff for free for a couple years now, I might as well find a way to profit from it.

A little late, but yeah, I use the EFA and the Writer's Market rate guides to set my rates.

There's also differences between proofing, light and heavy copyediting.

If you're editing, like, critique AND line-edits, then the rate goes UP.

I'm raising my rates in November, but I generally charge about $30/hour for proofing, $35/hour for light copyedits, $45/hour for heavy, and $55/hour for editing.

Hope that helps!!

Thanks Erin, that does help. It's editing work that she has for me, I was gonna ask for $50 an hour.

$50 for editing is pretty decent, Burrell. Sounds good!

Have fun! I'm a freak -- I looooove editing and copyediting. *pets style guides and multiple dictionaries adoringly*

Erin. What is a fair rate for heavy layout for a glossy graphic heavy magazine? That includes cropping, sizing and do other types of graphic editing to raw graphics. Also stuff like working with client to select fonts. Maybe some critique -as in "I can't use that photo, provide another that does not have problem x".

The link you provided only went through newletters, but I presume magazines are a very different animal in terms of work and price.

Typo, I'm really sorry, but I don't have an answer. I have no experience with the graphics/layout/formatting end of publishing magazines.

I found this, and it might give you more of an idea to work with: [link]

I HATE not having answers! :(

Typo, I think any magazine would have its own staff who would do that. I work for an association that puts out a quarterly magazine; we've outsourced it to a publisher which takes care of layout, image editing, etc. When we were doing it in-house, the work was done by staff.