Mac T. Wheeler - Freelance Writer
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What is a good hourly rate?

I mostly earn my living as a freelance writer these days, nothing grand, I don’t write novels or anything so spectacular. Mostly, I write marketing materials, sometimes short 20 or 30 page eBooks, quite a few essays and business reports and now and then I get to do some product reviews.

I started off charging a flat rate. I can write around 1000 words per hour so was bidding at $2 per 100 words, or £10 an hour basically. The problem is, I am getting more and more work of a complicated nature, right now I have 2000 words to produce on:

Organisational Culture may be visualized as being an implicit set of references that guide and influence the behaviour of individuals within the organisation.

You see the problem? I’m probably going to have to spend more time researching this than actually writing it. The $2 per 100 words just doesn’t cut the mustard in this situation. I’m going to have to work out some sort of pricing structure based on the type of work I am asked to do, if a lot of research is required then I will have to reflect that in my pricing.

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