How Much Money Do Great Freelance Designers Make?
How Much Money Do Great Freelance Designers Make?
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- ETM0
The biggest thing, besides volume of work is what you charge. If you worked the average year with 2 weeks holidays and a week off at Christmas, you'd work about 1960 hours a year. 1960 x $50 = $98,000
Freelancing is far more complicated, but based on a 'typical' job, there you go.
- $50/h?!?!? where do you live? I can never find talented freelancers for that cheap.zarkonite
- That seems an average rate across a broad scope. I wasn't being specific.ETM
- That doesn't account for the fact that at least 20% of any freelancer's time is non-billable.nocomply
- more like 50% unless you're connected to a few agenciesmonNom
- but i suspect you don't have much pricing power there.monNom
- Well, I DID say freelancing was more complicated than the example. And most freelancers work more than 40 hours a week.ETM
- week. It's just a simple example, people.ETM