>shelves. I would suggest 4 cents per word as a reasonable baseline rate to
>offer a professional writer for D20 material. In the old days as a
>freelancer for TSR (early 90s), I was making 10 cents per word and up
>writing D&D material. Sure, I loved the game, but I also was paying my way
>through college with it.
This is my point, really. The difference between 2 cents per word and 4
cents per word really makes little difference on a per project basis, but
when you add it up and try to make a living at it, it's the difference
between 10K per year and 20K per year.
>sure how many writers out there are taking advantage of it yet. If it
>*does* suit our needs, we'll make you an offer. If that offer isn't high
>enough, you can always decline it and shop your work elsewhere.
I think it might benefit the entire list to actually break this down to a
more tangible level; after all, 2 cents per word doesn't really "mean"
anything. The following charts mean nothing really except to demonstrate my
moderate math skills, but they might make a lot of the numbers make a little
more sense:
Freelancing
(X=per word rates in US cents,
Y=word count)
.02 .03 .04 .05 .06 .07 .08 .09 .10
2500 $50 $75 $100 $125 $150 $175 $200 $225 $250
5000 $100 $150 $200 $250 $300 $350 $400 $450 $500
10000 $200 $300 $400 $500 $600 $700 $800 $900 $1000
15000 $300 $450 $600 $750 $900 $1050 $1200 $1350 $1500
Hourly Wages
40 hours @ $ 5.00/hour = $200/week = $ 920/month (184 hrs) = $10K/year
40 hours @ $10.00/hour = $400/week = $1840/month (184 hrs) = $20K/year
40 hours @ $15.00/hour = $600/week = $2760/month (184 hrs) = $30K/year
40 hours @ $20.00/hour = $800/week = $3680/month (184 hrs) = $40K/year
Let's say you've been offered .04 per word for a 10,000 word project.
This translates into $400 of income. This is the equivalent of working a
full-time job for a week at a salary of $10 per hour. Can you generate
10,000 words in 40 hours? That's 250 words per hour. Quite do-able, as long
as you're looking for compensation equal to $10 per hour. But let's say you
value your skills more highly and you want to earn $20 per hour. To earn the
same amount, you'd have to double your output -- generating 500 words per
hour for 40 hours -- to get the same project done in half the amount of
time. Alternately, you could look for a higher rate of pay.
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