[Closed] Calling the graphic designers - day/hourly rates?

How many years experience you got? Are you any good? What do you think you're worth?

I'm OK and been doing it about 4 years. The work i do is infographics and for an academic (geographer) i'm very good, for a designer i'm average. I know what i'd charge for academic consultancy, but i'm not worth that for design work. The trouble is i don't know what is cheap.

£25 an hour is fair enough I reckon

Rule of thumb from my contracting days, price per hour contracting = salary / 1000. So if you'd earn £25,000 salaried, charge £25/hour.

Cheers all.

Guy I use charges £35 per hour, but he does have over 10 years experience.

Blimey, Graphic Designers are cheap! Or they get a lot more of the hourly rate to themselves.

My time here is booked at £90 - £120 per hour!!

Singletrackmonkey - Member
My time here is booked at £90 - £120 per hour!!

Inc overheads?

£25 an hour is fair.

I used to work for a rather large advertising agency and was somewhat shocked to find out that charged my Art Direction time out at £200 an hour. I wasn't seeing the merest fraction of that!!!

dont you know.. all us graphic designers and art directors work for free.. people always want something done as a favour, does my head in 🙁

I used to work for a rather large advertising agency and was somewhat shocked to find out that charged my Art Direction time out at £200 an hour. I wasn't seeing the merest fraction of that!!!

Well look at it this way: if you earned more, you'd only be subsidising Hora's alcoholism even further.... 😉

I'd charge £250 per day minimum. Given that it will have to be your w/e or evenings when it is done. That time is expensive. I'm in a similar game (you may already know) and have charged £400 a day regularly. Don't forget after tax etc, you need to find a sum that you are happy to have in your pocket in exchange for blowing off a day