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What is the hourly rate you'd expect for content creation?


by @florentin 8yr  | 5 comments

Hey guys. Starting to offer content creation services online.
What is the hourly rate I should expect?
Iโ€™ve seen developers talk about 5-6$ per hour. Should I expect less?
Any differences between US and Europe?
Any tip would really helpโ€ฆ

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To me, domain expertise, grammar, and style are the 3 pillars to base pay. I am pretty certain that at $5-6 per hour, I will need an editor for grammar, fact-checking, and tone. Topics will be basic.

For $5-15, I presume I can get grammatically correct content on basic topics.

Above $15 and up, you have smart college students, all the way up to domain experts producing good, technical work.

Hereโ€™s what Iโ€™ve done in the past when I had employed a research team for my own business for nutrition content: I paid them $.10 cents per word, all inclusive = Research, writing, and revisions. They were US based, because slang and cultural references are important to me in content that was targeted at a US audience.

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@genevieve 8yr

Hi Tal,
What kind of content creation services? Content writing, videos, something else?

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@florentin 8yr

Summarizing articles about digital stuff. Marketing and tech.

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@genevieve 8yr

I would say much, much higher than $5-$6 per hour. How much higher would depend on your experience and the market for what youโ€™re doing. I do content marketing online and usually charge between USD$25-$30, which is really low for the work I do. Have you had a look at UpWork and seen what other people are charging?

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@florentin 8yr

Thanks for that! UpWork is tricky. There are people from all over the globe there,
and the experience plays an important factor. So itโ€™s hard to say. Since Iโ€™m not creating the content, and just summarizing it, I think 20-25$ hourly would be a lot.

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Hey nomads,

Iโ€™m looking for the best location to incorporate my online business (offshore programming and so on).

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Hi guys :smiley:

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I got inspired when someone else mentioned that nomads/100% remoters are kind of niche and even hard to find vs the norm. Is this really the case in other peopleโ€™s experience?

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