Freelance Rate Chart

Once you’ve used our Guide to Estimating Writing Projects or Guide to Estimating Medical Writing Projects, this Freelance Rate Chart will help you complete the task of estimating your project costs and help you establish a budget.

Included in this rate chart are low, mid-range and high estimated hourly rates for:

• Software, Hardware and Technical Proposal Writers
• Instructional Designers
• Medical, Science and Regulatory Writers
• Copywriters
• Illustrators and Graphic Designers
• Proofreaders and Editors
• Translation and Localization Specialists

If you haven’t used our estimating guides but would like to estimate the cost of a technical communications, marketing communications or training project, you may instead want to use your interactive Project Budget Calculator tool to estimate your costs.