NUJ Rate for the Job: recent rates for Shifts / books

Updated: 2018-08-27

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Shifts / books
Tell us what you've been paid for Shifts / books		Freelance Fees Guide
Publication / Programme - details & terms	Group	Year		Total paid	GR	XXXX
Louis Vuitton Travel Guides copy editing rate per hour		2014		40.00		O
Louis Vuitton Travel Guides copy editing rate per hour		2014		40.00		O
Louis Vuitton Travel Guides copy editing rate per hour		2014		40.00		O
Academic publication (unnamed) copy-editing day - 12 essays		2014		500.00
Book ghosting and editing per day	_BlackPr	2013		400.00
British Dental Association Editing transcriptions of lectures to compile them into a book to help small business owners, such as medical practices		2018		200.00
Contract publishing per day to run project as editor including concept, pitching to client, client handling, commissioning text and subbing the text, plus social media and press releases related to project. Each book project lasts about a year, sometimes working every day, so		2018		250.00
HarperCollins Copy-editing per hour - member quoted Fees Guide rate and got it	_NI	2015		24.00
Illustrated books editing day	_DK	2013		130.00	GR
ILO (International Labour Organization?) per day book editing - CHF 5000 =		2016		3500.00
Lars Wagner design a book (8 hours)		2017		500.00
Legal/academic textbook editing day, pays approx £1.50 per page exes £25 for printing	_OUP	2013		750.00
LexisNexisUK per hour -	_RE	2018		24.00
Publishing Business (that's the company name) subbing day	_PubBiz	2014		150.00
Publishing Business (that's the company name) subbing day	_PubBiz	2014		150.00
Reviewing as-yet-unpublished scientific pamphlet per day - paid in advance		2017		480.00	GR
Unnamed Nambian publisher unspecified activity, per day "OK as Namibian rate!"		2016		60.00
Various book publishers book editing per hour		2013		20.00
Key to the rates, by column:
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
4 Currency: either or or (US)
5 Amount paid (total of basic licence and extra licences for web use, database resale...)				Amount
7 "Going Rate" according to experienced NUJ members - do try to better it:					GR
or Minimum rate set out in NUJ House Agreement:					HA
8 Underpaid, in the fallible opinion of the Freelance editor:				50.00		X
or Just sometimes we're pleasantly surprised:				1500.00		O

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