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Subject:rates for page makeup work From:Thom Remington <remingtf -at- ENGG-MAIL -dot- LVS -dot- DUPONT -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 13 May 1997 09:36:44 -0400
I do some freelance page makeup (PageMaker) as a sideline, but I think I'm
charging too little for my time. I work with instructional material (for
music teachers) involving gobs of scanned images and some fairly complex
pages. I just finished a rush project involving about 70 pages, which
included about 60 images scanned for this project and more than 100 small
icons. In addition, though there's an editor working on this material, I do
some light editing as I work.
So...
What's the going rate? How do folks charge (by the page, by the hour, by the
byte)? I wouldn't think that a by-the-page charge would be fair, because
some pages are vastly more complex than others.
Please respond to me. If there's enough information, I'll summarize for the
list.
Thanks.
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