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NUJ Rate for the Job:
Photography / mags
Updated: 2022-05-03
These rates have been reported by members of the National Union of Journalists and others, and printed in the Freelance, newsletter of London Freelance Branch. They are sorted by publisher/publication, then by date (most recent first). TIP: Use the "Find in page" command under your browser's "Edit" or "Search" menu to be sure of finding all occurrences of a publication/publisher. AND do note the year in which the rate was reported! See also the Freelance Fees Guide, which gives general recommendations. And read the disclaimer and the key to exactly what the entries mean.
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Photography - whether paid by the day, the hour or per picture - whose primary use is in a magazine. (Generic rates for publishing groups appear at the end.) If you are interested, the archived rates are here. | ||||||
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| Publication / Programme - details & terms | Group | Year |  |
Total paid | GR |
XXXX |
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| 100% Biker photos and words for 3-page colour feature FBS | _Jazz | 2013 |  |
480.00 | X | |
| 100% Biker 4 page photo spread of 2-day event with 11 pix + words by others: £45 per page split between photographer & writer. First European publishing rights, online digital magazine, website & promotional material wanted (for more payment). FBS agreed. | _Jazz | 2009 | |
90.00 | XX | |
| AirForces Monthly Inside pages, up to a maximum of £80 per page (regardless of the number of images used on that page). | 2011 | |
20.00 | XXXX | ||
| Allegra stock half-page | _Springr | 2000 | |
170.00 | ||
| Allegra (Axel Springer) stock pic half page | 1999 | |
170.00 | O | ||
| Argentina day ($230) | 1996 | |
148.00 | |||
| Ariel (BBC) day | _BBC | 2008 | |
160.00 | ||
| Arise (Velo Agency) picture research day. Took 3 months and NUJ intervention to get paid... | 2009 | |
125.00 | GR | ||
| Athletics Weekly 1 photo | _Descart | 2015 | |
15.00 | XXXX | |
| Athletics Weekly single photo published | _Descart | 2009 | |
15.00 | GR | XXX |
| Athletics Weekly 1 photo repro rate | _Descart | 2004 | |
25.00 | XXXX | |
| Attitude half day shoot , prod/exes 0 | 2010 | |
225.00 | GR | X | |
| Autosport small pic | _HM | 1995 | |
30.00 | ||
| Autosport pic | _HM | 1995 | |
150.00 | ||
| BBC Wildlife Magazine double page picture spread | _Immed | 2014 | |
150.00 | XX | |
| BBC Wildlife Magazine double page picture spread | _Immed | 2014 | |
150.00 | XX | |
| Bella day | _Bauer | 1994 | |
200.00 | ||
| Bella half-day | _Bauer | 1992 | |
100.00 | ||
| Best small pic drop in single use, stock image | _Hearst | 2013 | |
50.00 | GR | |
| Best half-day+exes | _GJ | 1994 | |
120.00 | ||
| BETA news pic | 2006 | |
150.00 | |||
| Big Issue 1/8 page single use | _BI | 2004 | |
80.00 | ||
| Big Issue half day, 1/3 page photo FBS | _BI | 2004 | |
120.00 | ||
| Big Issue use of 5 pix | _BI | 1998 | |
120.00 | X | |
| Big Issue Scotland; per agreement, each | _BI | 1997 | |
30.00 | HA | |
| Big Issue South-West stock photo | _BI | 2002 | |
35.00 | ||
| Bikesport News freelance submission price per image regardless of size - you have to find the image has been used as they don't tell you | 2007 | |
10.00 | GR | XXXX | |
| Bikesport News 4 photos used 1/8 page FBS | 2004 | |
40.00 | X | ||
| Bikesport News 4 photos used 1/8 page FBS | 2004 | |
40.00 | X | ||
| Bird Watching Magazine 2 x DPS picture feature | _Bauer | 2014 | |
250.00 | ||
| Bizarre Magazine one pic FBS | _Dennis | 2003 | |
600.00 | O | |
| Bizarre single image, DPS FBS | _Dennis | 2006 | |
600.00 | O | |
| BMT Journal 1 stock photo FBS | _TU | 2002 | |
90.00 | ||
| Boyz (PP & B Ltd) one-off fee for job up to eight images in magazine, on website and as thumbnails in future publications; extra for full-size re-use | 2004 | |
90.00 | GR | XXXX | |
| Broadcast 5 photos one use | _EMAP | 2015 | |
250.00 | X | |
| Broadcast pic | 1995 | |
30.00 | |||
| Building Worker (UCATT) day | _TU | 2004 | |
400.00 | ||
| Building Worker (UCATT trade union) eighth-page pic FBS | _TU | 2001 | |
60.00 | ||
| Business 5/50 cover photo FBS | 2006 | |
50.00 | XXXX | ||
| Business a.m. second use of pic - up to four columns | 2001 | |
40.00 | HA | ||
| Business a.m second use of pic - five or six columns | 2001 | |
60.00 | HA | ||
| Business a.m day | 2001 | |
140.00 | HA | ||
| CA Magazine half day | 2009 | |
270.00 | |||
| CA half day | 2008 | |
250.00 | |||
| Canoe Focus editorial photos | 2016 | |
50.00 | |||
| Chronicle of Higher Education half page stock photo - plus $20 for contact sheet First American Serial rights $388 | 2005 | |
194.00 | |||
| Classic Rock one pic (small) | _Highbur | 2005 | |
50.00 | ||
| Collect it commissions for article illustration FBS | _Essent | 2005 | |
150.00 | XXX | |
| Community Care Photos and 1000-word report | _RBI | 2011 | |
300.00 | XX | |
| Community Care half day FBS + expenses/materials | _RBI | 2002 | |
130.00 | O | |
| Community Care half-day | _RBI | 1997 | |
120.00 | ||
| Community Care cover commission+exes | _RBI | 1994 | |
250.00 | ||
| Community Care half-day | _RBI | 1992 | |
90.00 | ||
| Computer Weekly video - details unspecified | 2018 | |
250.00 | |||
| Conde Nast Traveller double page FBS | _CondN | 2006 | |
400.00 | GR | |
| Construction News front page stock photo FBS | _EMAP | 2006 | |
100.00 | ||
| Construction News stock photo FBS | _EMAP | 2006 | |
75.00 | ||
| Construction News stock photo for front page FBS | _EMAP | 2005 | |
100.00 | ||
| Construction News stock photo | _EMAP | 2004 | |
75.00 | ||
| Construction News 1 pic FBS | _EMAP | 2003 | |
75.00 | ||
| Construction News use of pic | _EMAP | 2002 | |
70.00 | ||
| Cosmopolitan per day | _NatMag | 1997 | |
350.00 | ||
| Cosmopolitan day | _NatMag | 1996 | |
300.00 | ||
| Country Life day, exes £100-200 , all rights (negotiable) | _AOL | 2012 | |
500.00 | GR | |
| Country Life day, shooting double-page; all rights; £50 exes | _IPC | 2002 | |
300.00 | ||
| Country Smallholding small reproduction | _ECN | 2003 | |
10.00 | XXXX | |
| Country (A+D Media) per pic FBS | 2003 | |
25.00 | |||
| Creative Review half day | _Centaur | 2008 | |
150.00 | ||
| Crops half day commission FBS | _RBI | 2004 | |
70.00 | XX | |
| Cumbrian Life day - 8 hours, one feature and 3 fillers, prod/exes 40p per mile | _Cumbria | 2010 | |
120.00 | GR | XX |
| Current Biology stock photo +50% for simultaneous web publication for 2 weeks | 2010 | |
75.00 | |||
| Custom Car 3-page feature, 1000 words plus 8 pics, no exes | _Kelsey | 2013 | |
300.00 | GR | X |
| Cyclist photography on location for feature, approximately 4 hours photography and 4 hours post-production - licensed for single issue and web | _Dennis | 2020 | |
400.00 | GR | X |
| Daily Mail onine 5 exclusive images "skinflints" | _Assoc | 2016 | |
150.00 | X | |
| Dance Express model shoot, half day | 1998 | |
200.00 | |||
| dazed and confused full page portrait upfront | 2007 | |
50.00 | XXX | ||
| Dazed+Confused (no exes) | 2000 | |
0.00 | XXX | ||
| Dazed+Confused commission | 1999 | |
0.00 | X | ||
| Dentist colour pic (like extracting...) | 1998 | |
10.00 | XXXX | ||
| Digital Camera DPS stock pic FBS + foreign editions | _Future | 2006 | |
560.00 | O | |
| Direct (GMB union journal) half-day | _TU | 1995 | |
125.00 | ||
| Drapers pic | _EMAP | 2006 | |
100.00 | ||
| Eastern Eye day | 1994 | |
25.00 | XXXX | ||
| Eastern Eye pic | 1994 | |
25.00 | |||
| Echo de Paris pic | 1994 | |
50.00 | |||
| Economist 3 images | 2018 | |
450.00 | |||
| Economist day | _Pearson | 1996 | |
290.00 | ||
| Elle pic commission | _Hach | 1998 | |
200.00 | ||
| Environmental Health Guide (Charter of Environmental Health) 1 stock photo | 2004 | |
90.00 | |||
| Environmental Health News half day - plus £20 digital processing FBS | _Chadw | 2007 | |
150.00 | ||
| Esquire 1 week photo shoot FBS | _NatMag | 2000 | |
2200.00 | ||
| Estates Gazette 1 photo | _RBI | 2007 | |
50.00 | ||
| Estates Gazette shoot+exes | _RBI | 1998 | |
125.00 | ||
| Euro under 26 pix | 1996 | |
50.00 | |||
| Euro under 26 job | 1996 | |
85.00 | |||
| Eventing 1 photo (2nd printed and following) FBS, single use, copyright retained by photog, exes? | _IPC | 2004 | |
20.00 | XX | |
| Eventing 1 photo (1st printed) FBS | _IPC | 2004 | |
30.00 | XX | |
| F1 Racing photos (4 pages) , terms 1 month international use | _HM | 2009 | |
450.00 | ||
| Fairtrade photos, videos, interviews - details illegible! | 2012 | |
550.00 | |||
| Farmers Guardian coverage of a social event FBS | 2005 | |
140.00 | XX | ||
| Farmers' Weekly day+exes | _RBI | 1997 | |
170.00 | ||
| Farmers' Weekly day+exes | _RBI | 1996 | |
120.00 | ||
| FHM half day | _EMAP | 2005 | |
200.00 | ||
| Focus half day shoot FBS | 2003 | |
150.00 | |||
| Fortean Times 9 photos, exes for train fare, but no mileage for cycling FBS | _Dennis | 2014 | |
200.00 | ||
| Four Two Four (?=FourFourTwo) day | _HM | 1996 | |
275.00 | ||
| Frank travel pix page, no exes! | _EMAP | 2000 | |
100.00 | XX | |
| Frank page (no exes) | _EMAP | 1999 | |
100.00 | X | |
| Freedom half-day (circ. 1000) | 1997 | |
25.00 | |||
| Freelance front page B/W pic - 'a great feeling of self-worth' + | _TU | 2001 | |
0.00 | ||
| Gente (Argentina) day | 1998 | |
200.00 | |||
| Geo (Germany) day | _GJ | 1998 | |
130.00 | ||
| Geographical 6-8 pics | 2009 | |
400.00 | |||
| Geographical per page | 1997 | |
100.00 | |||
| GMB direct half day | _TU | 2000 | |
130.00 | GR | |
| GMB direct half-day | _TU | 1993 | |
125.00 | ||
| GMB direct day | _TU | 1993 | |
250.00 | ||
| Golf Monthly day rate 0.45p mileage, full subsistence, general expenses, parking, etc | _IPC | 2006 | |
600.00 | GR | XX |
| Good Housekeeping day | _NatMag | 2002 | |
450.00 | ||
| Good Housekeeping photos per day in studio | _NatMag | 2001 | |
550.00 | GR | |
| GP (General Practitioner) half day | _HM | 1998 | |
85.00 | ||
| GP (General Practitioner) half-day | _HM | 1996 | |
85.00 | ||
| GP (General Practitioner) half-day+35p/mile | _HM | 1994 | |
90.00 | ||
| Grazia per pic one time print licence for one issue - FBS | _EMAP | 2007 | |
300.00 | ||
| Grazia two pics 1/4 page and 1/8 FBS | _EMAP | 2006 | |
175.00 | ||
| Guitarist Acoustic one pic | 2005 | |
120.00 | |||
| H+E Naturist per pic | 2008 | |
80.00 | GR | ||
| HA Weekly half-day | 1996 | |
95.00 | |||
| Health Service Journal day expenses paid | _TU | 2015 | |
260.00 | ||
| Health Service Journal Half-day expenses paid | _TU | 2015 | |
160.00 | ||
| Health Visitors' Weekly photo | 1996 | |
65.00 | |||
| Hello! photos | _Hola | 2003 | |
300.00 | ||
| Hello! 0.167 col | _Hola | 1998 | |
100.00 | ||
| Hello! (B+W) | _Hola | 1993 | |
80.00 | ||
| Hello! (day, plus 1000 words) | _Hola | 1993 | |
2500.00 | ||
| Hello! (5 photos, colour, 2pp spread) | _Hola | 1993 | |
800.00 | ||
| Hello! (day, plus 1000 words) | _Hola | 1993 | |
3000.00 | ||
| Hello food photography, 6 images | _NS | 2008 | |
450.00 | O | |
| Heritage Magazine (Romsey Publishing) repro fee First World | 2005 | |
20.00 | XXXX | ||
| High Life Feature photography on location, single day, basic edi, no exes single print and digital use | _Cedar | 2016 | |
300.00 | ||
| Homes and Gardens and Living ETC photography in London, terms: all rights - FULL release of all material for them to use and resell WITHOUT a credit | _Future | 2021 | |
800.00 | GR | X |
| Horse + Hound photo 2 day rate FBS | _IPC | 2004 | |
220.00 | X | |
| Horse +; Hound 1 photo 1/4 page rate FBS | _IPC | 2004 | |
60.00 | ||
| Horse +; Hound day rate FBS | _IPC | 2004 | |
135.00 | ||
| Housing Report per pic | 2019 | |
95.00 | |||
| Housing Today 1 stock photo, 1/3 page FBS | _Builder | 2004 | |
70.00 | ||
| Huck 1 photo | 2007 | |
100.00 | X | ||
| ID page, commissioned or not, no exes for the non-nepotistic | 2000 | |
50.00 | XX | ||
| Independent On Sunday New Review single editorial portrait | _Lebedev | 2012 | |
250.00 | X | |
| Index on Censorship pic | 1997 | |
40.00 | |||
| Inside Housing 1 stock pic FBS | _TMG | 2004 | |
60.00 | ||
| Inside Housing 1 stock photo FBS | _Builder | 2004 | |
60.00 | ||
| Inside Housing 1 stock photo | _TMG | 2003 | |
60.00 | X | |
| Inside Housing 1 stock shot FBS | _TMG | 2003 | |
60.00 | ||
| International Boat Industry per pic | _IPC | 1997 | |
80.00 | ||
| Investors' Chronicle pic | _Pearson | 1993 | |
45.00 | ||
| Investors' Chronicle 0.25 page | _Pearson | 1992 | |
35.00 | ||
| Investors' Chronicle 1/4 page | _Pearson | 1992 | |
45.00 | ||
| Jane's Airport per pic | _IHS | 2014 | |
35.00 | X | |
| Jane's Airport per pic | _IHS | 2014 | |
35.00 | X | |
| Jane (New York) with exes US$ 350 | 2000 | |
222.00 | |||
| Jane (New York) portrait session, with exes ($350) | 1999 | |
218.75 | |||
| Jazzwise stock photograph FBS | 2013 | |
25.00 | X | ||
| Jewish Chronicle Photos, all rights, no exes | 2011 | |
35.00 | XXX | ||
| Jewish Chronicle per pic | 2001 | |
60.00 | |||
| Jewish News photogallery - 30 pix | 2004 | |
50.00 | XXXX | ||
| Jewish News stock photo | 2004 | |
40.00 | X | ||
| Karting photographs - all sizes | 2007 | |
6.00 | GR | XXXX | |
| Labour Research 1/2 page | _TU | 2007 | |
100.00 | ||
| Labour Research stock pic first use | 2000 | |
60.00 | |||
| LBS (=? London Borough of Sutton) 10 pix | _HMG | 2003 | |
550.00 | O | |
| Lea (Swiss mag?) 50 per cent share of fee paid to agency | 2020 | |
5.29 | |||
| Living Marxism per job+exes | 1997 | |
60.00 | |||
| Loaded DJ shot | _IPC | 1996 | |
100.00 | ||
| Local Authority day | 2002 | |
180.00 | |||
| Local Rider stock image, size unknown single use | 2014 | |
5.00 | XXXX | ||
| Local Rider stock image, size unknown single use | 2014 | |
5.00 | XXXX | ||
| Local Rider single use of stock image, size unknown | 2014 | |
5.00 | XXXX | ||
| London Planner stock pix to cover | 2000 | |
75.00 | |||
| London Planner stock pic inside | 2000 | |
35.00 | |||
| Management Today half-day | _HM | 1997 | |
150.00 | ||
| Manchester United Football per day FBS incl exes | _Future | 2000 | |
270.00 | ||
| Middle East (I C Pubs) photo | 2002 | |
15.00 | XX | ||
| Middle East 4 pix+caption | 1997 | |
75.00 | X | ||
| Midweek (2nd use) | _INM | 1995 | |
45.00 | ||
| Mini magazine stock pic | _Future | 2013 | |
25.00 | ||
| Mojo cover plus 4/5 cover story pix all rights on pictures used | _Bauer | 2012 | |
2000.00 | GR | |
| Mojo "The Mojo Interview" - full-page portrait plus a couple of other pix all rights on pictures used | _Bauer | 2012 | |
800.00 | GR | |
| Money Marketing 5 prints | 1994 | |
150.00 | |||
| More pic | _EMAP | 1993 | |
300.00 | ||
| Motor Boat Month pic | 2004 | |
40.00 | |||
| Mountain Bike UK images for feature | _Future | 2011 | |
400.00 | ||
| Museums Journal 1 photo FBS | 2008 | |
80.00 | |||
| My Weekly food photography, 12 images | _DCT | 2008 | |
600.00 | O | |
| N8 (Angel Magazines) pic | 2006 | |
120.00 | |||
| Narratively three-hour shoot, 11 photos used Initial offer of US$100 rejected | 2016 |  |
150.00 | XX | ||
| National Geographic Traveler 1/4 page photo (sourced via Flickr) magazine and online version | _NatGeo | 2012 | |
275.00 | ||
| National Geographic feature / photo essay for travel section (via #FreelancerPayGap) | _NatGeo | 2020 | |
1000.00 | ||
| National Geographic 7 pictures | _NatGeo | 2011 | |
3000.00 | ||
| Nature (Macmillan) pic | _Holtzb | 1994 | |
60.00 | ||
| New African B+W repro | 1997 | |
25.00 | XXX | ||
| New Internationalist one photo | 2019 | |
65.00 | |||
| New Internationalist quarter-page photo | 2019 | |
65.00 | |||
| New Internationalist one pic | 2004 | |
50.00 | X | ||
| New Internationalist 1 photo one use | 2003 | |
50.00 | |||
| New Scientist pic | _RBI | 1994 | |
60.00 | X | |
| New Times one pic | 1999 | |
25.00 | X | ||
| Newsweek per day with exes | 2000 | |
350.00 | O | ||
| NME 1/4 page photo | _IPC | 2013 | |
25.00 | XXX | |
| NOISEY (Vice media) photographing music festival online use unlimited worldwide | 2016 | |
150.00 | |||
| Non League Paper football assignments (they have dropped their rate this season...) | 2003 | |
110.00 | X | ||
| Non-League Paper Match coverage + ISDN after match - called to say they aim to increase to £200 | 2001 | |
100.00 | X | ||
| Nursing Standard half-day expenses paid | _TU | 2015 | |
160.00 | ||
| Nursing Standard assignment | _TU | 2004 | |
160.00 | ||
| Nursing Standard half-day (processed film 15, 25p/mile) | _TU | 1996 | |
95.00 | ||
| Nursing Standard day | _TU | 1993 | |
130.00 | ||
| Nursing Times half-day first print use only | _EMAP | 2003 | |
150.00 | GR | |
| Nursing Times half-day first print use only | _EMAP | 2003 | |
150.00 | GR | |
| Nursing Times per day FBS | _EMAP | 2000 | |
250.00 | ||
| Nursing Times half day | _EMAP | 2000 | |
120.00 | GR | |
| Nursing Times Single Pic reqested from stock single 1/2 page use | _EMAP | 2000 | |
100.00 | ||
| OK! per photograph | _NS | 2011 | |
50.00 | XX | |
| OK submitted 10-12 photos, 2 hours' evening work | _NS | 2009 | |
250.00 | ||
| OK pic | _NS | 1996 | |
50.00 | ||
| OK four pix | _NS | 1996 | |
100.00 | ||
| Open Mind journal half-day | 1993 | |
90.00 | |||
| Outdoor Fitness 6 page feature photography on location, approx 4-6hrs, basic edit, exes £45 single use print/digital | _Kelsey | 2016 | |
300.00 | GR | |
| Outdoor Fitness shoot sports feature on location to brief, return unedited imagery by proof gallery online - prod/exes mileage 40p/p/m Bauer own you and everything you do for them. | _Bauer | 2014 | |
300.00 | ||
| Outdoor Fitness shoot sports feature on location to brief, return unedited imagery by proof gallery online - prod/exes mileage 40p/p/m Bauer own you and everything you do for them. | _Bauer | 2014 | |
300.00 | ||
| PCS People (trade union mag) half-day portrait shoot | _TU | 2019 | |
275.00 | O | |
| Pink Paper (PP & B Ltd) one off fee for job all rights | 2004 | |
75.00 | GR | XXXX | |
| Planet 1 stock pic | 2005 | |
0.00 | XXXX | ||
| Positive News Day rate | 2016 | |
300.00 | |||
| Pregnancy step-by-step pix | _Highbur | 2001 | |
50.00 | X | |
| Premier Guitar full page photo, print and digital, plus use on Facebook 6-month exclusive rights re: guitar specialist magazines, non-exclusive elsewhere | 2013 | |
100.00 | |||
| Press Gazette | 2012 | |
75.00 | XX | ||
| Press Gazette stock photo | _Quantum | 2004 | |
60.00 | ||
| Private Equity International 1.5-hour job plus retouching plus transmission | _IPC | 2013 |  |
280.00 | ||
| Pulse half-day+29p/mile | _MF | 1994 | |
120.00 | ||
| Pulse half-day | _MF | 1992 | |
90.00 | ||
| Rail per day | _EMAP | 2002 | |
125.00 | X | |
| Real Magazine 1 hour photo shoot | 2007 | |
150.00 | GR | ||
| Recycle print+design 1 hour | 1994 | |
65.00 | |||
| Red Pepper stock pic | 2004 | |
35.00 | XX | ||
| Red Pepper one pic | 2004 | |
30.00 | XX | ||
| Red Pepper 1 pic FBS | 2003 | |
35.00 | |||
| Red Pepper 1 stock photo | 2003 | |
50.00 | |||
| Red Pepper 1 pic FBS | 2002 | |
50.00 | |||
| Republik (Switzerland) 50 per cent share of fee paid to agency | 2020 | |
15.35 | XX | ||
| Reveal photo job 1 hour , mileage @ 40p pm = £24 offered all rights wanted: member didn't sign | _Hearst | 2013 | |
250.00 | GR | |
| RMT News half-day photo assignment FBS + web use | _TU | 2006 | |
190.00 | ||
| Rock Sound full page (more than one pic) | 2011 | |
70.00 | XXXX | ||
| Rock Sound full page | 2011 | |
70.00 | XX | ||
| Rock Sound quarter page | 2011 | |
30.00 | XX | ||
| Rock Sound half page | 2011 | |
40.00 | XX | ||
| Rock Sound double-page spread/poster | 2011 | |
100.00 | XX | ||
| Rolling Stone on line via photoshot/retna/getty images stock / archival image | _Getty | 2013 | |
8.90 | XXX | |
| Roof per day, B+W | 1998 | |
155.00 | |||
| Running fitness single photo published | _Descart | 2009 | |
25.00 | GR | XX |
| S.I.D Magazine per photo | 2008 | |
75.00 | |||
| Safeway Magazine photos per day Bought outright | 2001 | |
600.00 | GR | ||
| Saga Magazine half day FBS + expenses/materials | 2002 | |
250.00 | O | ||
| Saga Magazine feature (a day's work) FBS | 2012 | |
1000.00 | O | ||
| Scene headshots | 1995 | |
50.00 | |||
| Scene day of 8 | 1995 | |
400.00 | |||
| Scuba World a 1200 word feature complete with pictures -- '20,000 leagues under the going rate' | 1994 | |
90.00 | |||
| Searchlight front cover photo FBS | 2004 | |
100.00 | |||
| Shooting Times front cover on Christmas edition | _IPC | 2009 | |
70.00 | XXX | |
| Soc. Work (?) photo | 2002 | |
35.00 | |||
| Soldier (Ministry of Defence) photo one use | _HMG | 2015 | |
40.00 | X | |
| Solidarity Action 2 pix | 1999 | |
60.00 | |||
| Songlines photograph + blog | 2011 | |
150.00 | |||
| Sounding stock photo for cover | 2006 | |
230.00 | |||
| Sport Free Attitude stock sale, single shot non-exclusive print edition | _Score | 2004 | |
60.00 | XXX | |
| Stage pic | 1998 | |
70.00 | |||
| Televisual full page bleed image - exes on top | _Centaur | 2006 | |
180.00 | ||
| Televisual full page pic FBS | _Centaur | 2005 | |
180.00 | ||
| The Agility Voice event coverage, 2 days FBS | 2005 | |
200.00 | XXX | ||
| The Ecologist 1/4 page photo | 2005 | |
50.00 | X | ||
| The English Garden feature FBS | _ECN | 2012 | |
350.00 | GR | |
| The Networker (NGO magazine) 1 stock photo | 2003 | |
50.00 | X | ||
| The Rugby paper photos for centre spread | 2020 | |
50.00 | XX | ||
| The Socialist set of 3 | 2001 | |
30.00 | XXX | ||
| Time for Business business portraits of one subject, prod/exes £380.00 all-inclusive print and screen use for open ended time use | 2013 | |
100.00 | GR | XX | |
| Time Out portrait/single job | _TOut | 2003 | |
150.00 | ||
| Time Out restaurants | _TOut | 2003 | |
50.00 | X | |
| Time Out per restaurant | _TOut | 1998 | |
50.00 | ||
| Times Educational Supplement Scotland (TESS) per job ~4 hours total two years' usage in mag, forever on website, fee reflects travel distance, no further exes | _TSL | 2013 | |
270.00 | GR | |
| Times Educational Supplement Scotland (TESS) reproduction fee, any size single use | _TSL | 2013 | |
50.00 | GR | X |
| Times Educational Supplement use of unsolicited photo from Uganda | _TSL | 2006 | |
25.00 | X | |
| Times Educational Supplement day | _NI | 1996 | |
160.00 | ||
| Times Higher Education Supplement 1/4 page stock photo FBS | _NI | 2004 | |
100.00 | ||
| Times Higher Education Supplement quarter page | _NI | 2003 | |
100.00 | ||
| Times Higher Education Supplement per pic | _NI | 1997 | |
150.00 | ||
| Times Saturday Magazine, 'contacts' one use dps one pic and contact FBS | _NI | 2004 | |
400.00 | GR | |
| TNT full page image | 2005 | |
90.00 | X | ||
| TNT 2-page spread | 2003 | |
200.00 | |||
| Top Gear 150 words and a half-page colour pic | _BBC | 1994 | |
200.00 | ||
| Trendi day | 1998 | |
200.00 | |||
| Tribune six photos | 2001 | |
180.00 | |||
| Truck+Driver one-page pic plus a few hundred words of text | _RBI | 1994 | |
200.00 | ||
| Truck+Driver one-page pic plus a few hundred words of text | _RBI | 1994 | |
300.00 | ||
| TUC magazine 4 photos | _TU | 2008 | |
1600.00 | O | |
| TUC magazine 2-hour portrait job | _TU | 2008 | |
150.00 | ||
| Universe day | 1997 | |
125.00 | |||
| Universe any job all-in | 1996 | |
65.00 | |||
| Venue stock images for features prepared to go with one time non-exclusive licence, but not to pay! | 2006 | |
0.00 | XXXX | ||
| Vogue two photos | _CondN | 2006 | |
500.00 | ||
| Wanderlust third of page illustrated travel article | 2006 | |
180.00 | |||
| watercraft Photos for feature FBS | 2002 | |
300.00 | |||
| Welfare State Action pic | 1999 | |
30.00 | |||
| Welfare State Action one pic | 1999 | |
30.00 | |||
| West Africa day | 1998 | |
100.00 | X | ||
| Which? half-day | 2015 | |
220.00 | |||
| Which? portrait job , prod/exes travel at 41p pm , terms 3 month licence | 2009 | |
150.00 | |||
| Wild About Animals single column pic+caption | 1994 | |
100.00 | |||
| Wild About Animals pic+caption story | 1994 | |
100.00 | |||
| Women's Realm fashion day | _IPC | 1998 | |
450.00 | ||
| Women's Realm day | _IPC | 1998 | |
150.00 | ||
| Workers' Liberty | 1999 | |
30.00 | |||
| Workers' Power five pix | 1999 | |
55.00 | XXX | ||
| Workers' Power five photos | 1999 | |
55.00 | XX | ||
| World's Children per pic | 1997 | |
60.00 | |||
| Young People Now Front cover feature, one day's work no expenses; processing and film to be paid but if using digital some discrepancy over how much extra to pay. Turned down the job because too badly paid. After turning down job, editor said "well you won't be getting an | _HM | 2003 | |
150.00 | XX | |
| Yours photos short portrait job London FBS | _EMAP | 2007 | |
300.00 | GR | O |
| Balder group (Sweden) 5 photos | 2017 | |
250.00 | X | ||
| Bauer publishers (Germany) 2 photos | _Bauer | 2020 | |
240.00 | ||
| BBC Sky at Night photos of Sir Patrick Moore + Brian May, 1 day licences not discussed, but used, not too happy | _Origin | 2007 | |
450.00 | X | |
| BBC, ITV, ITN entertainment video packs, per day (via #FreelancerPayGap) | 2020 | |
170.00 | |||
| BP-or-not-BP.org video (details unspecified) | 2018 | |
150.00 | XX | ||
| Buzzfeed previously-shot (stock) image, terms one time web use | 2019 | |
40.00 | |||
| Camera Press sale to Polish magazine | 2005 | |
10.00 | XX | ||
| City of London archive stock photo Cat. 2a: Scholarly and/or non profit-making publications, BW | _HMG | 2013 | |
15.18 | ||
| City of London archive stock photo Cat. 2a: Scholarly and/or non profit-making publications, colour | _HMG | 2013 | |
29.84 | ||
| DOM publishers (Germany) photo | 2020 | |
125.00 | |||
| Emap Motorcycle News Photos for MCN extra for MCN website | _EMAP | 2000 | |
180.00 | ||
| Future Publishing page | _Future | 1994 | |
105.00 | ||
| Gardening title photo job, no exes FBS | _IPC | 2013 | |
500.00 | GR | |
| German magazine 7 photographs , terms print use only | 2019 | |
623.00 | |||
| Getty Images day (via #FreelancerPayGap) | 2020 | |
175.00 | X | ||
| Haymarket publications day+exes | _HM | 1995 | |
100.00 | ||
| Inside Communications stock photo FBS | _TMG | 2006 | |
70.00 | ||
| Large magazine company out-of-court settlement for unauthorised use of photo(s) | 2020 | |
1560.00 | |||
| Major news weekly Use of one photo from US museum in news weekly - note online use is much more | 2016 | |
175.00 | |||
| Mercury Group title 1 shoot | 2017 | |
35.00 | XX | ||
| Newsletter (Prospect trade union) quarter page photo | _TU | 2008 | |
70.00 | ||
| One member reports their minimum rate per photo, with credit | 2020 | |
195.00 | |||
| One member reports their minimum rate per photo, waiving credit | 2020 | |
390.00 | |||
| Online publisher out-of-court settlement for unauthorised use of photo(s) | 2020 | |
1040.00 | |||
| PHOTOshoot 3 hours | 2007 | |
160.00 | |||
| Posh lifestyle mag commissioned garden photo feature, first UK rights | 2014 | |
750.00 | GR | O | |
| Prospect (trade union) member magazine half day | _TU | 2019 | |
180.00 | ||
| Reed day | _RBI | 1998 | |
200.00 | ||
| Specialist online magazine out-of-court settlement for unauthorised use of photo(s) | 2020 | |
1500.00 | |||
| Specialist online magazine out-of-court settlement for unauthorised use of photo(s) | _Bauer | 2020 | |
1080.00 | ||
| Trade magazine one image FBS | 2008 | |
45.00 | |||
| TRVL app per pic - 40 per piece photographer retains copyright | 2012 | |
15.00 | |||
| trvl.com photos, each , for use on iPad platform | 2012 | |
15.00 | GR | ||
| UCATT half day photography | _TU | 2002 | |
280.00 | ||
| Unison Focus full page photo (lost first invoice, paid promptly on second!) | _TU | 2002 | |
180.00 | ||
| Unnamed Swedish magazine (Balder) one cover + 2 inside | 2017 | |
250.00 | |||
| Key to the rates, by column: |
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| 1 Publication / Programme, any details of work and licence | ||||||
| 2 Owner at the time the rate was reported, where known | Group | |||||
| 3 The year in which the rate was reported | Year |
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| 4 Currency: either or or (US) | |
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| 5 Amount paid (total of basic licence and extra licences for web use, database resale...) | Amount |
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| 7 "Going Rate" according to experienced NUJ members - do try to better it: | GR |
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| or Minimum rate set out in NUJ House Agreement: | HA |
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| 8 Underpaid, in the fallible opinion of the Freelance editor: | | 50.00 | X |
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| or Just sometimes we're pleasantly surprised: | | 1500.00 | O |
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| Words, per 1000 | News | Local | Mag | online | Book | PR | Other |
| Words, other | News | Local | Mag | online | Book | PR | Other |
| Photography | News | Local | Mag | online | Book | PR | Other |
| Broadcasting | News | Local | Other including podcasting | ||||
| Shifts | News | Local | Mag | online | Book | PR | Other |
| Other: | Cartoons | Crosswords | Illustration | Punditry | Retainer | Teaching | Tip-off | Translation | ||||||
| Recently reported rates | all from the past few months |
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