Freelance fee's
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- Meeklo0
I dont think there is a standard rate, anywhere. I used to think there it was, I been frelancing for some time now and it all comes down to an equilibrium of these 2 things:
1- How much you think your work is worth.
Yes, we all think we are the best and everyone sucks but try to be realistic, experience, quality, knowledge, how much would your client wants you to do the job!!
2- How much work you have at the moment.
If you have no clients, no projects and you have to pay rent, then you will have to lower your rate, this does not mean that you suck it just means you need to increase your clients.
On the other hand, if you are extremely busy, you are not charging enough, raise your rate, it does not matter that someone you know (that you admire as a designer and know is better than you) is charging $100 an hour, and you don't think you are worth that, raise you rate, be picky w/ clients test the ones you dont care to work for that much see how high they are willing to go, the more clients you have , makes your time more valuable its time to charge for meetings, estimates and so on.see my point?
good luck!