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recent rates for Words, per 1000 / mags
Updated: 2020-05-08
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Work paid by the thousand words, 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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Freelance Fees Guide
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| Publication / Programme - details & terms | Group | Year |  |
Total paid | GR |
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| Amateur Photographer Op-ed - £75 for 400 words - as reported to journoresources.org.uk | 2020 |  |
188.00 | |||
| Amateur Photographer 400-word op-ed piece @ £75 = | 2019 | |
187.50 | |||
| Ars Technica long-form science article - expenses available | _CondN | 2018 |  |
350.00 | ||
| Bandcamp Daily music writing - according to whopayswriters.com | 2020 | |
530.00 | |||
| BBC Future 1200 word feature @ £400 = | _BBC | 2019 | |
333.00 | GR | |
| BBC History magazine | _Immed | 2018 | |
285.00 | ||
| British Medical Journal 1300 words @ £395 - | 2018 | |
304.00 | |||
| Camadian Geographic feature - according to whopayswriters.com | _NatGeo | 2020 | |
1000.00 | ||
| Computer Active words + first-hand screenshots/images - | _Dennis | 2018 | |
138.00 | ||
| Cycle Industry News features | _Score | 2018 | |
80.00 | ||
| Ecologist feature | 2017 | |
100.00 | |||
| Economist Espresso briefing 150-word news piece @ £100, all rights | 2018 | |
666.00 | GR | O | |
| Empire features | _Bauer | 2018 | |
300.00 | GR | |
| Esquire feature - according to whopayswriters.com | _Hearst | 2020 | |
1330.00 | ||
| FC Business Intelligence 800 words @ £300 | 2017 | |
375.00 | |||
| Frieze Art review, 700 words @ £180 = | 2019 | |
257.00 | |||
| Frieze Art review outside UK, 2 edits | 2019 | |
180.00 | |||
| Latin Finance | 2018 | |
350.00 | O | ||
| Modus magazine (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) researching and writing feature article plus three sidebars including profile interviews all global rights + all moral rights waived | 2017 | |
400.00 | |||
| N by Norwegian (inflight mag) 1500 word feature story with two days reporting abroad @ £500 = terms - not discussed | _Ink | 2019 | |
333.00 | ||
| Nature Index 450 words @ £450 = | _SpringV | 2018 | |
1000.00 | ||
| New Internationalist | 2018 | |
250.00 | |||
| New Scientist features, all rights (also note that they pay on publication) | 2019 | |
510.00 | O | ||
| Pet Product Marketing 1200 words @ £240 = | _Bauer | 2017 | |
200.00 | ||
| Planet Rock - author retains copyright | _Bauer | 2018 | |
200.00 | ||
| Post | 2019 | |
300.00 | |||
| Professional Engineer | 2019 | |
300.00 | |||
| Q Reuse of Q features published respectively 10 and 25 years ago - published under license to former owner EMAP with agreed reuse rate | _Bauer | 2018 | |
120.00 | ||
| Q Reuse of 25-yr-old feature - copyright retained then and now | _Bauer | 2018 | |
120.00 | ||
| Q Reuse of 1995 feature in special , terms Writer retained copyright then and now | _Bauer | 2017 | |
120.00 | ||
| Resident Advisor | __misc | 2018 | |
187.50 | ||
| Resnews 750 words @ £75 = | 2019 | |
100.00 | |||
| Spears magazine 1200-word feature @ £480 = | 2018 | |
400.00 | O | ||
| Spectator interview feature 1000-1200 words - print use only | 2020 | |
250.00 | |||
| Spectator live music review 800 words @ £200 for print use only = | 2020 | |
250.00 | |||
| Teen Vogue profile or interview - via whopayswriters.com | _CondN | 2020 | |
310.00 | ||
| The Atlantic opinion or essay - according to whopayswriters.com | 2020 | |
560.00 | |||
| The Economist 600 words news piece @ £400, all rights | 2018 | |
666.00 | GR | ||
| The Establishment as announced at www. theestablishment.co/ pitch-us | 2018 | |
125.00 | |||
| The Guitar Magazine negotiated up from £150 | 2018 | |
200.00 | |||
| The Journalist 750 words @ £250 = | _TU | 2019 | |
333.00 | ||
| The Register feature - | 2020 | |
250.00 | |||
| The Register feature | 2020 | |
250.00 | |||
| The Register feature , terms first worldwide online | 2019 | |
250.00 | |||
| The Week Junior Big Debate - 600 words @ £175 - | 2018 | |
292.00 | |||
| Variety (Penske Media Corporation) according to whopayswriters.com | 2017 | |
750.00 | |||
| Vice 2500 words @ £2000 no exes = | 2020 | |
800.00 | |||
| Vice (Tonic health section) long-form science article - expenses available | 2018 | |
250.00 | |||
| Vice news 10 pix thrown in | 2018 | |
430.00 | O | ||
| Vice UK | 2018 | |
120.00 | |||
| When Saturday Comes 800 words @ £70 | 2017 | |
87.50 | GR | ||
| Wire feature | 2017 | |
70.00 | |||
| CSP union | _TU | 2018 | |
300.00 | ||
| Fire Brigades Union | _TU | 2018 | |
300.00 | ||
| Global Island News 1800 words @ £300 = | 2018 | |
167.00 | |||
| Human rights publicatrion 700 words @ £100 = | 2017 | |
143.00 | |||
| Informa business-to-business title web feature 1800 words @ £720 - | _Informa | 2018 | |
400.00 | O | |
| Professional association 2000 words @ US$1800 | 2018 | |
900.00 | O | ||
| Think Publishing 1200-word feature plus 300-word sidebar @ £835 - | 2018 | |
557.00 | |||
| Trade mag 2000-word in-depth feature, with multiple interviews @ £500, all rights yielded | 2019 | |
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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Other recent rates:
| Type of work: | In the "sector": (click or tap below!) | ||||||
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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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