designer weekly rate
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- alicetheblue
phhhffff
have been asked to come up with a weekly rate
- senior graphic designer - for in house agency work.Any agency people out there?
- doesnotexist0
I would suspect $30-40/hr x 8 x 5
- in Toronto?alicetheblue
- mmm probably close, they're all pretty much in that range nationally in the US, so maybe figure the currency ratedoesnotexist
- going through a recruiter
you get about 40alicetheblue - max i got in agency was $50/hr x 8hrs a day in MTLMSTRPLN
- Senior $75phfusionpixel
- mistermik0
long term future looks great there.
- skser0
900 / Day
- Europeskser
- *backs bag moves to Europealicetheblue
- bullshit.babaganush
- UK is diffrent...skser
- $700/day isn't out of the question in nyc and la.Faction18
- hallelujah0
I wonder if those heady days are about to end
- alicetheblue0
yeah -I have been thinking the same.
Putting my spare time into HTML CSS ... been doing Flash
since it came out ... want to into other direction.Print is dying :-/
- print's not dying!doesnotexist
- print has always evolved, just evolve yours into something that can cross over.Ranger
- Totally agree. Print isn't dying.
Massive catalogues and all of the jobs associated with them are gasping for breath, though.pylon - more of a slow death, but agree
to evolve with italicetheblue - print is not dying it is just merging with web or videoepete22
- print it dead. along with all our hopes and dreams.lvl_13
- print is dryingmimeartist_com
- print has dried, you can take it of the rack now.refunktion
- pylon0
Alice depending on the size of the agency and your experience 30–40 (maybe a *little* more) sounds about right. 30/hr feels a little low but as said above, the days of 65/hr could be slowing down...
- 55 is reasonablelobstarr
- do I hear 60?
kiddingalicetheblue - For a senior in TO? Maybe, but again it totally depends on the agency.pylon
- Frosty_spl0
A guy at my agency was a full time freelancer for 10 years (40 hrs a week at probably 50 bucks an hour). He made as much as the execs. haha lucky bastard.
- I started @ $50+/hr out of school and did freelannce for 5 years at 70-80 hrs/week. Do the math, it was nuts.kld
- billz got paidkld
- pics or it didn't happen...VectorMasked
- pics of the houses, cars, or the women?
lolkld
- alicetheblue0
thanks pylon
*runs out to buy lottery ticket :)
- alicetheblue0
* waits for response from Jaline
- bulletfactory0
my weekly rate is my hourly rate x 40.
- TheeOtherJuan0
no less than $450 a day buddy, skies the limit.
That is what we paid a freelance designer a day at a agency.
- I'm not a buddy I am a boobyalicetheblue
- thank youalicetheblue
- Iggyboo0
Honestly. If you can get what your looking for charge atleast 40 an hour. 60 an hour more likely. (40 or 60 ) x 5 x 8 = 1600-2400
- Llyod0
400 per day
- alicetheblue0
Do you specify its a 40 HOUR week and anything beyond that is charged on an hourly rate? (or is that too picky?)
- We has 41,5 hours week here, but we also speak diffrent language,,,skser
- pylon0
Really depends — I guess you're asking for what your weekly salary is? Sometimes it's based on a 35 hour week since lunch is un-payed at most places, so an 8-hour day is really just a 7hr with a 1hr gap.
Definitely find out what your overtime compensation is.
Also, when travelling for a client a *daily* and *weekly* are higher because they've got you captive for a whole day, not just a work-day... but I don't think that's what you're asking.
- alicetheblue0
thanks pylon
they work 9 to 10 hrs a day there
and eat lunch while workingI was basing the 40 hrs on working 40 hrs
and if i took a lunch it would be unpaid on top of thatthis is making me so tired – i hate negotiating
- Yep, it's a bitch.
Know your value and stick to it.
The RGD salary survey is a decent ref for Ontario, at least – but take it with a grain of salt.pylon - but take it with a grain of salt.pylon
- yeah - they have quoted that.
I will mull this over and thank you for all your advice :-)alicetheblue - your working at my place?? hahasvenreed
- Yep, it's a bitch.
- tasty0
- I don't know which looks better at this point - the ale or the malealicetheblue
- It's Friday, Alice. Ale, then male.
:)pylon - hahaha
the more you drink the "handsomer" they becoome ;-)alicetheblue
- Llyod0
ask for 2k per week.104k per year should pay for those late nights and insurance
- scrap_paper0
Negotiating is a tricky subject especially when dealing with an industry which notoriously underpays its employees and contractors.
Whatever you do you have to work out your numbers so that they don't come form nowhere. Work out your break even point. Workout how much of a margin you want to make on top of that. If you want to be a contractor/freelancer and not salary then you MUST do this stuff. It sucks and is not intrinsic to most of us but if you don't do it you end up getting taken for a ride.
Also you have to know what your walk away limit is. Are you willing to work for nothing, something, something + holidays, a lot?
Agencies will want to work out what they are paying you per hour so that they can build their project budgets appropriately. They will probably charge 2 to 3 times what you charge for your hours to their clients.
Always remember that whether or not they claim to not be able to pay you what you are asking for they generally can and this is about your interest not theirs.
I would say minimum $50/hr if you are not going through a freelance agency. If you are doing creative as well as production I would up that by at least 20%.
Try to get a number out of the client/agency first. If that doesn't work start the negotiation with your dream amount and get them to haggle.
my 2¢
- that's more like your 10¢Llyod
- Yeah I need to use a rate calculatorscrap_paper