The Blog Hearld has an excellent series on blog jobs. But it’s not just for bloggers. All freelance writers, editors, translators, in fact anyone freelancing should take a close look at the second article in the series, Blogging Jobs: How Much Are Bloggers Paid to Blog?
It’s the sort of article on pay rates I wish I’d thought to write because it breaks the pay into several categories.
It looks at pay rates per word, then per post based on the per word rate.
Next it takes on the issue of time, including the average work week (1777), average income in the United States and then works out how many blog posts you’d have to make annually to earn $x dollars a year.
For reference, I generally post twice a day Monday through Friday, and once on Saturday and Sunday. That’s 624 posts in a year – give or take.
I strongly suggest you read and bookmark this so you can find it again when you’re considering how much you want to charge. The rest of the series is valuable too, but more specific to bloggers.
How do you get at the fees you charge?
Write well and often,
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If you can work for a fixed monthly salary, it will do good for you…
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Anne, great tips. However, when I opened this story, the line read ‘how much shoudl writers and bloggers charge?’. So in essence there is a typo in your wording. Please have a look.
ah, it’s in the title of the page… not the title of the post, but the title of the page… fixed now, thanks… don’t know if it will ripple through quickly or not.