Freelance Writer Rates: Who Pays the Most Online?

Freelancers newsgroup polls members; operation is $0.03 to $2.00 per word.

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MY EARNINGS HISTORY looks similar to the bell curve. When we started in journalism in 1993, essay record reviews as well as short headlines items for the SF Weekly, we got 10 cents the word. By 97 we was removing two dollars.

I can still pull which down occasionally, though some-more often its closer to the $150 we got for about 500 difference for Good.is, or, worse, the sad, sad, three-cents-a-word we was removing for the weekly online column (for the nonprofit with decent traffic, though still). And the magnitude of essay for exposure grows with your each tweet.

The weird thing is which while imitation has fewer pages to elect due to the decrease in ad income which started with Web 2.0 as well as was accelerated by the Great Recession, online publishing still hasnt had the ad income to compete with what imitation pays. So where is all this leftover money? Sitting in ad agencies bank accounts?

Surprisingly, perhaps, some of it actually seems to be going to writers. Although some freelancers report reception 5 percent of the imitation editions price for the piece underneath the same title which would appear only online, over at the Yahoo newsgroup Upod (an acronym for underneath promise, over deliver) they have better news: the recent check of the 1000 mostly-freelancer members found several websites offering the dollar-a-word as well as up.its still an ascending struggle, though not impossible; we know the few privately who conduct it.

That was the benchmark figure when we started writingbut its value about $1.47 today. So its still an ascending struggle to support the family in the vital metro area as the freelance writer. Its not impossible, though; we know the few privately who conduct this.

Nonetheless, most would be! correct to strength out their income by essay in different media. Film as well as television is the most lucrative; even if your name is never upon screen, if youre both lucky as well as great we can slot $30k for the commander which takes the couple of months to writeand if youre really lucky as well as really good, rewriting facilities can consequence we as much as fifty grand the week. Proposals for books which can be finished upon the part-time basis customarily consequence $30k advances, according to illuminated agentsthe eBook notwithstanding. we can privately attest which PR essay brings in $45 an hour as well as up (if we have experience). Speaking engagements, if we have the brand as the columnist, pundit, or book author, also assistance great writers put the icing in the gravy as well as bring home the bacon.

There is some-more hope than we would think, says Upod owner as well as moderator David Hochman (a regular contributor to O, Playboy as well as most others). Its not all 10 dollars an article similar to the calm farms have been paying. Theres the lot some-more ways to have money now, as well as we feel similar to theres the revival function just in the last six months.

Below have been what Upodders reported, this fall, reception from assorted online pubs. Keep in thoughts this is what somebody has earned, not indispensably the customary rate. Always ask for more, or, if they initial suggest less, kindly demonstrate your consternation which we know someone who got more.

BTW, we got $50 for this (but we over-delivered).

[Editor's note: to the extent we've been means to find them, links go to writer's discipline or contact info. If we want the full up-to-date scoop upon how to representation these as well as hundreds of other pubs, consider ponying up for AvantGuild membership at mediabistro.]

UNDER A QUARTER

SheKnows
$0.13/wor.

Salon
$150 prosaic price (750 word essay; Q&A up to 3000 words)

AROUND A THIRD TO A HALF-DOLLAR A WORD
Daily B east
$250 prosaic price (commentary)
$300 as well as up (reported)
writers they similar to have been said to get $1/wd as well as up

ModernTonic.com
$30 prosaic price for the 200-word email newsletter

Good.is
$150 prosaic price for articles around 500 difference

Orbitz
under $.50/word

AOL Travel
$250-$400 prosaic price (750 words)

NYTimes.com (In Transit blog)
$50 per post

GlobalComment.com
$50 per post

Slate
$0.50/wd

Smithsonian
$0.50-0.60/word

Tablet
$0.50/wd

WebMD
$700 prosaic price (800-1000 words)

Playboy.com
$75 prosaic price (100 word post with picture)

Newsweek.com
$500 prosaic price for the post of 250-1200 difference

Trip.com
$.75/word

Preservation
$250 prosaic fee; length ranges 350-1000 difference

A BUCK A WORD AND UP

Miller-McCune
$1/wd.

Chatterberries.com (now fashionablebride)
$1/wd.

Technology Review
$1/wd

OnEarth
$1/wd

MSN
$1/wd

Momentum (Univ of Minn. eco journal)
$1/wd

Travel & Leisure
$1000 prosaic price for the slideshow

HBR.org (Harvard Business Review)
$1.20 $2/word

TheFiscalTimes.com
$1.50/wd

AARP.com
$1.70/wd.

Responsibility Project
$2/wd.

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