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Industry Guidance
| Industry Guidance | Hourly Rate | Day Rate | One-off fee | Notes: rates do not cover travel, accommodation, subsistence expenses; bursaries or access requirements which should be paid |
| Freelancer minimum day rate | £40.25 | £322.00 | Creators Rights Alliance (formerly Andrew Bibby Ready Reckoner), starting rate for freelancers: £322 per day, equivalent to annual salary of £24,000 | |
| Author rates | £210.00 – £300.00 | Scottish Book Trust Live Literature 90-minute event = £210. Society of Authors: £300 for 90-minute workshop, £450 for 3 hour workshop, translation starts at £100 per 1,000 words, £200 for keynote speakers, £150 for panellist, £200 for event chair. | ||
| Performance minimum rate | £50.00 – £200.00 | Society of Authors: performance starts at £50 for up to 15 minutes up to £200 for sole performer. | ||
| Scriptwriting minimum rate | Varies | Varies | Varies | Refer to Writers Guild of Great Britain. |
| Copyediting minimum rate | £37.11 | Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading hourly rates of pay minimums: £31.92 Proofreading, £37.11 Copyediting, £42.66 Developmental editing, £46.19 Project Management; £34.00 indexing. | ||
| Artist minimum rate | £297.00 | Scottish Artist Union day rates of pay: £248 (new graduate) £297 (3+ years experience), £367 (5+ years experience). |
Scottish BPOC Writers Network Rates
| Scottish BPOC Writers Network Rates | Hourly Rate | Day Rate | One-off fee | Notes – rates do not cover travel, accommodation, subsistence expenses; bursaries or access requirements which should be paid |
| Freelance SBWN Team Member | £28.00 | Hourly rate for long-term team members and moderators, eg on the team for 9 or more months. | ||
| Freelance contractor minimum rate | £30.00 | For short-term project admin or support, for example transcription, project coordination. | ||
| Curator | £35.00 | Creative project devising, planning and delivery, including creation of own new work. May include commissioning other artists, and/or hosting sharing or reading events, and/or facilitating workshops. | ||
| Consultancy | £45.00 | £360.00 | In recognition of specialist knowledge, expertise, and/or lived experience | |
| Sound designer | £280.00 | Based on BECTU rates | ||
| 90-minute workshop or seminar facilitator | £300.00 | Leading and facilitating a 90-minute workshop (includes prep, approximately at least 1 day’s work). Society of Authors: £300 for 90-minute workshop, £450 for 3 hour workshop. | ||
| 3-hour workshop facilitator | £450.00 | Society of Authors: £450 for 3 hour workshop. | ||
| Guest author Q&A or panellist | £200.00 | Being a panellist at a one-hour event, eg discussing a subject or your book. | ||
| Chair | £250.00 | Chairing an event, eg: preparation including reading guest writer’s book; or research, panel questions; or selecting and coordinating Readers and MC’ing whole event | ||
| Reader or performance | £78.75 | Live performance of 5-7 minutes, eg reading previous work, recent or work-in-progress to an audience. | ||
| Online event moderator | £30.00 | £100.00 | Hosting a writing space (not facilitating), for example: opening Zoom, housekeeping, introducing and handing over to guest facilitator/chair, troubleshooting participant tech issues, closing Zoom (events typically 1 or 1.5 hours + up to 30-minutes prep). | |
| Published new work | £157.50 | New work, first publishing rights exclusive for 4 months. Commissions: 2 or more poems, or 750 words prose. Or short work text + audio/video recording. | ||
| Published new short work | £78.75 | New work, first publishing rights exclusive for 4 months. Commissions: up to 40 lines of poetry, 400 words prose (text only). | ||
| Audio Performance | £78.75 | Performance recording fee for new works up to 5 minutes audio (in addition to text) | ||
| Video Performance | £78.75 | Performance recording fee for new works up to 5 minutes video (in addition to text) | ||
| Reprint | £45.00 | Reprint of previously published work |