UK Freelance Rates
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- Dancer
Yes I know it's been discussed b4 far too many times. But all the searchs bring up US/CA/AUS rates.
What rates do you charge or have been charged in the UK for a designer.
Day and Hourly
thanks
- Dancer0
Come on people just a figure will do.
- trevedda0
this weeks design week suggests between £15 -£45 per hour
and
£110 - £400 per day for design freelancers.
- Dancer0
£110 - £400 per day for design freelancers.
trevedda
(Nov 7 05, 05:40)That's a massive bracket.
Thanks though
- trevedda0
Sorry, I know it was vague. I have had freelancers charge around £25 per hour and I considered that they were good and I was getting them cheap!
I reckon £40 per hour is very much top end and as you creep up from there your rate becomes more than freelance and more like a company rate.
If you charge yourself as a company I think you have to charge out slighly higher than a "straight" freelancer. It's confusing since you can be a very small company of "one" good designer.
- vespa0
what sort of freelancing are you talking about? £40 ph doesn't seem top end to me.
- rasko40
£25 an hour is your typical charge
- hUtChhOuSe0
£25/£200 seems about average.
- vespa0
hahaaa hutchhouse! so true!
- vespa0
woops maybe that wasnt' a joke and you meant £200 per day.
- rasko40
i dont think he was joking
- Dancer0
Ok cool, that's kinda what I went for, perhaps on the cheaper side but I am just starting out so as my experience grows I could potentially raise it in 6 months - a year.
Vespa, mostly print with smaller web projects (design and build)
- hUtChhOuSe0
I wasn't joking with my statment...
Are you earning a lot more Vespa?!!!
- MichaelFelt0
depends who you are gonna work for, or work freelance for, if they can afford to pay you top end then say thats how much its gonna cost!
dont sell yourself short!
- hUtChhOuSe0
200 is all I could haggle in this place...
But if I can earn 300+ a day I'd like to know where!!!
- Dancer0
Don't you run a studio Hutch?
- dsc0
yep - between £25 and £40 is about right, although it depends on the client, the project and your relationship with them.
I've been freelancing pretty solidly with one company now for 18+ months, so I've lowered my rate a bit in return for the constant work.
Only been able to charge £40 for one job so far, and BOY did I go home with a smile on my face after that one :)
- vespa0
I worked for £22 per hour when i started out and it was brilliant!
but it's funny cos i thought £175 per half day (i only work half days when freelancing now cos they are nights if you know what i mean) was ok and then i said that to someone at work and he said he thought that was more of an hourly rate and i felt all ripped off so then the next time the guy i was freelancing for called i turned it down cos i just didn't have time and then he called back after a few weeks trying to find other designers and said he'd tried all these other designers and they weren't very good and he could pay me double, so then i did some work for him for £700 per day (£350 for 4 hours) but it's just too boring compared to making music so the next time he called i had to say i honestly can't do it, haven't got time and HE said well this client i've got is a millionaire so just name your price, but i had to turn it down or risk my sanity.
honestly sometime freelance rates are just so random. i asked another friend of mine if £700 per day was dishonest and he said not at all £800 per day was what he charged so i really have no idea what is right.
sometimes you wonder if people just say they charge more as a one-upmanship thing! they probably do one job for £1000 per day and the rest of the time they work for mcdonalds rates!
- rasko40
thats fucking crazy money, I can only assume that is working for end user rather than in house at an agency.. I have never heard of a graphic designer earning £700 per day in an agency.
- rasko40
either that or its pure fucking bullshit.
- vespa0
you're right it wasn't for an inhouse agency job, just a few days here and there. this guy i was freelancing for was desperate i think. anyway from my point of view it was £350 per night. but i'd only work 4 hours a night.
in general i think the more boring the work is, the more they will pay.