Six-figure freelancer Carol Tice: Minimum of $100 per blog post. If you’re just starting out, expect your rates to be lower. Invoice Amount / Hours It Took Me to Write = Internal Hourly Rateīut remember, I’ve got 7.5 years of experience under my belt. Then, I checked Toggl (the app I use to track my time) and saw that it took me about 10 hours to write those two blog posts. Each blog post ended up being 2,000 words, so I invoiced my client $1,200. But internally, I know that for me to reach my financial goals, I want to be at $100 per hour.Įxample: In September 2020, I wrote two blog posts for a client at $0.30/word.

Again, my clients do not know about this I do not charge them by the hour because it doesn’t matter how long it takes me. And at the end of each month, I can check how many hours I spent writing and how much money I made. Even though I charge by the word, internally, I track my time. My per-word writing rate that I tell my clients is $0.25 to $0.40 per word, depending. What does that mean? Well, I charge per word when I write for clients, and the type of writing I do is content writing, mainly long-form blog posts for tech companies (pay attention to that because it affects how much I can charge.) To me, a good freelance writing rate is to internally aim for $100/hour. What’s a “Good” Freelance Writing Rate? My Personal Opinion Based on 7.5 Years of Freelance Writing Experience

Per word rate for content writing