How much should I charge for proofreading & editing 1 page of article?
By esthatika
@esthatika (85)
Malaysia
August 17, 2008 9:11pm CST
I've received an offer to edit & proofread articles on a freelance basis. But they asked me to quote a price. But I'm not sure what's the market rate right now. If I charge to much, I probably won't get the job. But if I charge lower than the market rate, I won't earn what I deserve to.
So can anyone who has experience in this line of work advise me about the current market rate? For 1 page of article (Font size: 12, Spacing 1.5), how much should I charge? Kindly respond as soon as possible because I need to reply them soon.
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@coffeechat (1961)
• New Zealand
18 Aug 08
Hi esthatika - I notice that you are based in Malaysia. Editing has a different rate structure than proof reading and both depends on content, language and target publication.
In Malaysia English content will draw better rates. Further it depends on whether the content is technical, news, legal etc the rate structure can vary. One single page is very low volume for such work. You would look at between MYR 2 and 15 per page.
Now I know that it is quite a range.
For example if your client were to provide you with a 100 pages a day steady work, MYR 2 per page would be reasonable, as long as you did not have to do very heavy editing. The expectation would be that you can go through about a 100 pages a day.
If you factor in about MYR 200 to 250 per day of work and identify your productivity at the expected quality levels you can calculate your per page rate.
The most important thing is that you do not get cross-eyed in such work like this woman here. (joking ).
Cheers.
