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Calculating Your Freelance Rates - Part 3

Date February 15, 2008

The second question you should ask yourself is: What will my market bear?
Answering this question will often lead to wide and varied answers. You might think $65 per hour is good but what happens when you find out your biggest competitor charges $25 per hour? I see this happen time and again, even in highly […]

Calculating Your Freelance Rates - Part 2

Date February 13, 2008

The first question you need to ask when you’re trying to determine your rate is: What are you worth?
Not “net worth” more like “salary worth”. Determine what someone with your same skill level would make in a full-time, salaried position. The Web is full of sites that catalog salary levels, most notably Salary.com (www.salary.com).
Monster.com […]