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Topic: Freelance "compensation requirements"
| Author | Message |
| aksvlp | Posted – 10/8/2007 10:23:49 PM | show profile | email poster I am applying to freelance copy edit for a scientific journal (long articles). They want you to address, in your cover letter, "why this position interests you and your compensation requirments". What kind of compensation should one ask for for freelance pieces? I currently edit for another journal, but that is a flat rate for about 20 articles a year. I am maybe getting <$100/ article, but I oftern see the articles more than once and help out with some other things too (both the editor and I started at the same time- so we're both often lost) Any suggestion on what to say regarding my "compensation requirements" will be greatly appreciated!! -AK |
| dribbledrive1 | Posted – 10/9/2007 11:29:06 AM | show profile Many people charge for copy editing by an hourly basis. If you don't want to do that, I'd just leave out the compensation requirement in the cover letter. |
| aksvlp | Posted – 10/10/2007 10:40:28 AM | show profile Thanks dribbledrive1. What kind of an hourly rate range is reasonable for an entry level copy editor. I have edited about 11 full manuscripts for 1 journal over the last 6 months (one issue our of two per year). thanks -AK |
| Marie | Posted – 10/10/2007 11:20:14 AM | show profile Just leave off the salary requirements. Outline your experience, don't call yourself an entry level copy editor, and wait for them to call you. When salary comes up, ask what range they had in mind (believe me, they have one). Otherwise, you'll likely undersell yourself and be paid less than you would have had you let them just name their range. Good luck. |
| eddytompkins | Posted – 10/10/2007 2:32:37 PM | show profile Gawd, the "what is your range" ... "what are you offering" ... "what is your range" game is tiring... but I guess that topic has been covered plenty elsewhere ... |
| notimetolose | Posted – 10/10/2007 7:51:11 PM | show profile http://www.the-efa.org/res/rates.html Check the rates on the Editorial Freelancer Association's site. They're pretty standard, although scientific journals tend toward the cheap side. Don't undersell yourself though. Yes, you want a new client, but you still have to eat. Corporate clients pay much better, fwiw. One scientific journal publisher pays its offsite copyeditors a whopping $12/hour--in the U.S.! |
| aksvlp | Posted – 10/11/2007 12:49:10 PM | show profile Thanks notimetolose- That tip was really helpfully! I don't think I would have ever found that site, I never would have searched for EditorIAL FreelancERS ! -AK |
