Freelance rate in NYC
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- nylon0
If anyone is working freelance for less than $500 a day, may I suggest you get the fuck out of NYC!
- bklyndroobeki0
$32/35 hr for freelance design (less than 28 hrs a week).
NYC
0 benefits. 1.5hr commute
Would you take it?- Didn't want to create a new thread 4 this.bklyndroobeki
- Only if I have nothing else at the momentpinkfloyd
- 1.5 hour commute is rough, man.e-wo
- Print work... and yeah it's a long commutebklyndroobeki
- If you can do it 3 days/wk, that's not bad. Junior jobs pay $20-$30 and might have no benefits.freedom
- Do something else 2 days a week and you'll make decent money.freedom
- Turned them down. Working in Philly for a month .bklyndroobeki
- SigDesign0
Talent agencies for design often charge almost double whatever rate they're paying you. So, if you find the clients yourself or work through design agencies directly, you can charge more.
- hektor9110
bump
- utopian0
$800 - $1,200/Per Day
- LOL. That's Wall Street money.omahadesigns
- I think he is bankerhektor911
- jim!akrok
- nylon0
Personally, Creative Circle must be coining it.
They charge us easily $70 per hour for people, who in my opinion aren't very good...
I'd love to see your stuff and I'll see if I can help...
- your email address didn't work but you can check some of my work on my website - http://labgraphik.co…shesh
- 20020
$50-100 /hr
$500-800 /day
- For $500-800 /day, you better be an amazing CD.freedom
- thats like AD level yo2002
- Who pays an AD 800 a day besides maybe the best ad agencies???freedom
- bloated agencies ????????2002
- 6,000 / mo is a lot of money. Your portfolio is mostly smaller clients.freedom
- You might get more, you might get less. Depends if you care where you work.freedom
- "care where you work": healthcareCyBrainX
- shesh0
For my level of work where would you say I'd fit in that bracket?
- http://labgraphik.co…shesh
- $300 / day tops.freedom
- Wow so not even IN that bracketshesh
- For $500-800 /day, you better be an amazing CD.
– freedom1/6
thats like AD level yo
– 20022/6
Who pays an AD 800 a day besides maybe the best ad agencies???
– freedom3/6
bloated agencies ????????
– 20024/6
6,000 / mo is a lot of money. Your portfolio is mostly smaller clients.freedom
- freedom0
$100 / hr is like 200K a year.
- freedom0
Lose that "Commissioned Portrait".
Honestly, if you're working in a studio, could you get more than $300 / day?
The internet has nothing but bad things to say about Creative Circle. Not sure anyone credible actually uses them.
- nylon0
I'd want $100 per hour if I was a freelancer.
The shit out there is outrageous...
- breadlegz0
Have you thought about going direct to clients? Then you won't be talking hourly rates, but project costs instead where you can make more money?
- omahadesigns0
Don't really see any ILLUSTRATION?
- Good point! I actually never realised that till now. I post more of my illustrations on my Instagram - http://instagram.com… maybe I should drop the illustration out of my bio?shesh
- http://instagram.com… maybe I should drop the 'illustration' bit of my bio?shesh
- nylon0
Personally, I think NY fee blow anywhere else in the world away ten fold
- breadlegz0
Is it mainly agency work you're looking for then?
- shesh0
No not really, one of the main reasons I moved here is I was lucky enough to get some decent celebrity attention and scored some pretty big opportunities in regards to a fashion venture I'm working on. I have some ongoing design work from clients back in Australia I still work on from here but I want to get some experience and exposure working on some projects here in nyc so that's why I contacted a few design studios here about freelance work.
Ideally I would rather go direct to clients because that's how I was working back in Australia but it seems the way things are done here is reeally different to Australia so I thought working some freelance hours at a few studios would educate me.
- pr20
As DP (doubt anyone here even knows what that is):
$1500-3500/day- Really? This gives me hope for the future!nb
- the 3.5k/d jobs come like 2x a year though, so most of the time you are around 1.5-2k mark.pr2
- No design job pays $400K unless you're a partner at the biggest firm or something.freedom
- and you're wrong, this is QBN, we all know what DP is:
Double Penetration :)_niko - no DP works more than like 6 days/month. It's not $400k but rather $150k.pr2
- DP = Director of Photography, usually for a TV ad or similar budget item, many meetings!
vaxorcist - in the film biz, there's a LOT of unpaid getting ready time & phone calls,etc before that day rate.vaxorcist
- This guy doesn't do TV commercials though.freedom