As a Graphic Desinger how much do you charge per hour/day?

Question

I'm a Freelance Graphic Designer working in the UK. Can anyone tell me what the going rate is for doing design work for charging clients? For example how much would you charge for designing a simple A5 double sided, full colour Flyer done in say 4 hours?

Answer 1

Reactorsite is right - this does depend on how good you are - but if you apply the logic as follows you should get an idea!

Price per hour depends on experience, but the client is only interested in the final product - not what the designer has done before.

With this in mind - a competent and experienced designer may be able to design a flyer as you described in 2 hours, whereas the inexperienced newcomer could take up to a full day!

The client is willing to pay for the design work, an example price for full colour, double sided A5 work would be approx £120 - £200, depending on the quality of the final piece.

You could therefore reasonably suggest that an experienced graphic designer working at a fast pack and designing good work is worth up to around £100 per hour. A less experienced person, doing passable work, only £15 per hour (total for the job over 8 hours £120!)

If your work is good, and this job takes you 4 hours, then a reasonable price would be £50 per hour. I charge up to £75 per hour for photoshop work (I am a photographer) and many clients consider this reasonable, as I am quick and competent. Maybe I should put my price up...!

Bear in mind - there prices must include your running costs etc - they are the cost to the client and not the 'wage' to the designer. as a professional you would only expect to take home approximately 40-60% of this price. (think electrical costs, computer upkeep, business running costs etc!)

Regards

Chris

Answer 2

There's few different ways to charge:

1- Do you also supply printing too? If that's the case, then normally i charge for 50% or more.

2- Dont' think about hourly rate, think it as a job, because using long or short hours to design, really depends on your ability and how fast you are. For that case normally I charged as size, lets say A4, double side A5 is the same as A4. If that's the case, i would charge 50-100 pounds, depends how complicate the brief is by the time i got the infos.

Answer 3

It really depends on how much time is going into each graphic. Logo design typically runs about $150 per logo. And that's generally if they're making the design by hand. Personally, I would recommend $10-$60 each depending on how much effort goes into them. Or you could charge a certain price per hour of labor put into it. GOOD LUCK!

Answer 4

Whatever the market will bear. Check the sites of other designers to see what the going rate is, then see if you can make a interest customers by charging a little less, or offering more.

Answer 5

Depends on a lot of stuff. Your skill level, competition in your area, location, a lot of things. I've been known to charge anywhere from 10-15 bucks an hour, which isn't too bad for something I do on the side.

Answer 6

If you live in the UK I don't see how any decent freelance worker worth his or her salt can live at less than £60 per hour. If you want a decent standard of living, pay your taxes, run a car - it can't be less! And that's assuming you work from home and don't have office costs.
Hope this helps.

Answer 7

I am currently working freelance doing product animation using 3D modelling software, I charge £20per hour, this covers all aspects involved however, modelling, rendering, animating.

For graphics I would charge a similar amount.

Answer 8

It depends where in the uk are if you my mate is £50+p/h and if you live in the manchester area some only charge round £25-40p/h

Answer 9

Entirley depends on how good you are...

You should be able to find out a High Street rate by going onto the printing.com website....

Answer 10

I charge 85$/hour here in NYC/USA