Going rate for a production designer?
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You also need to factor in freelance vs. employee. 16-18/hr is typical junior production sort of rates... as an employee. A freelancer at the same level should be roughly double. So ~35/hr. You've got to remember an employee costs more than just their salary. You've got sick days, vacation days, employer portion of unemployment benefits, equipment, consumables, HR time /accounting /etc.
As a freelancer you've got increased expenses and risk due to gaps without work, marketing yourself, meetings, etc. that need to be accounted for.
12/hr is pretty low, but don't think because these folks are saying 35/hr that you can command 70k in a junior production role as an employee. It's apples and oranges.
Also $12 at a good studio where you're getting a lot of variety of work and good people to learn from is better than $20 in a role without that.