NUJ FFG: recently paid rates for Print media / Editing/producing books

Print media / Editing/producing books
recently paid rates - updated 2009-11-10

The following are not suggested rates. They are a selection of rates recently reported to the Rate for the Job service - if any were found for Print media / Editing/producing books. Please note that these are self-reported; they are rates that the reporter was not dissatisfied with, but standards of dissatisfaction vary; and that a computer sorted them on the basis of these self-reports so some randomness is possible.

The second figure, where given, is for additional rights (use on the web, etc).

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2009_07		The Juice
(Mitchell Beazley) subbing day ,			140

2006_01	_TOut	Time Out
updating guide chapter, ca. 1000 words,			175

2006_10	_TOut	Time Out guidebook
proofing short book,			400

2004_12		Aldridge Press
(packager) editorial day,			135

2006_02		Book publisher
editing day (specialist),			175

2006_01		Book publishers
proofreading or editing, per hour, up to,			25

2007_05	_Thomson	Book: Offshore Company Law 2nd edn
per day per job - hours unspecified but set fee, 20 chapters plus annexes (forms)			800

2005_12		Children's dictionary
(Bender White - packager) editing day,			140

2006_11		City of London finance house
per day editing a report, viz an agency, no expenses incurred, so flat fee to me			250

2004_07		Educational Publisher
day editing,			400

2009_01	_Holtzb	English Language Teaching (ELT) coursebook
editing and proofreading substantial book for secondary schools ,			3500

2007_06	other	General books
picture research, basic and creative, per day , UK rights only			126

2007_05	_Hach	Hachette books - general editing, copyediting, proofreading
per day,			125

2008_04	_Hach	Hodder educational book
subbing day,			150

2007_08	_Hach	Hodder Headline
reading material for schools, per day,			350

2006_05		Insight Guides
per day editing/subbing travel books at home, paid gross			140

2006_03	_Informa	Routledge / Taylor & Francis
copy editing, per double-spaced A4 page,			1.35

2006_05	_Informa	Taylor + Francis
STM (scientific, technical and medical) journal copyediting, per ds A4 ms page,			1.90

2006_04	_HMG	Teacher-training CD-ROM series - high-profile DfES project
per day,			500

2004_06	_TOut	Time Out Guide Book
editing new edition of city guide book - straight fee. Four months nearly full time work.,			7000

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