 Words, per 1000 / online
Yes, of course, 'online' work can also be 'news' or even 'mags'. But we're making a special effort to collect rates for work which is primarily for online use. (And we didn't fancy a three-dimensional table of types of work.)
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Tell us what you've been paid for Words, per 1000 / online |
Freelance Fees Guide |
| Publication/Programme - details & terms |
Group |
Year |
¤ |
Basic fee |
Extras
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| alt.world (Wark Clements) web use only |
|
2001 |
 |
100 |
|
|
|
| Atlantic online arts feature |
|
2011 |
|
100 |
|
|
|
| Atlantic online arts feature |
|
2011 |
|
125 |
|
|
|
| Aviation Week blog item |
_McGraw |
2010 |
 |
700 |
|
|
|
| Construction News basic rate supplied by editor |
_EMAP |
2001 |
|
200 |
|
|
|
| Emerging Health Threats researched scientific news report/commentary , terms FBS |
|
2009 |
|
270 |
|
|
|
| European Cultural Digest |
|
1998 |
|
200 |
- |
|
|
| Express FBS |
_NS |
2010 |
|
533 |
|
GR |
O
|
| Express online, it says FBS |
_NS |
2010 |
|
350 |
|
GR |
|
| Fabulous FBS |
_NI |
2010 |
|
533 |
|
GR |
O
|
| Guardian Weekly website |
_GMG |
2007 |
|
275 |
|
|
|
| Guardian Society website 500-word blog @ £75 |
_GMG |
2009 |
|
150 |
|
|
X
|
| Guardian writing for website |
_GMG |
2006 |
|
300 |
|
|
|
| Guardian Society web-site news article standard Guardian contract, as in 2004-5 NUJ agreement |
_GMG |
2005 |
|
239 |
16 |
|
|
| Guardian online 600-800 word features @ £150 web use licensed |
_GMG |
2009 |
|
250 |
|
|
|
| Hot News online |
|
2010 |
|
100 |
|
|
X
|
| Launch, yahoo.com, dotmusic record/gig reviews, 500 words @ £35 (cut from £40) |
_Yahoo |
2009 |
|
70 |
|
|
XX
|
| Leeds (Leeds University alumni magazine) Features Leeds uni website only |
|
2011 |
|
380 |
|
GR |
|
| Legal Updater identify expert; interview; research; write all rights assigned plus indemnity clause |
_RE |
2006 |
|
170 |
|
|
X
|
| Mail online online foreign news (500 words), travel paid |
_Assoc |
2010 |
|
200 |
|
|
|
| Media resistance (Belgium) Web publication: $1000 for 15k characters) |
|
2000 |
|
260 |
- |
|
|
| Media Resistance (Belgium - ($1000 for 15k characters) |
|
1999 |
|
262 |
- |
|
|
| Mojo 500-word blog (per Mojo mag freelance agreement) |
_Bauer |
2009 |
|
300 |
|
GR |
|
| Mojo Blog (commissioned) terms as Q/Mojo freelance agreement |
_EMAP |
2007 |
|
300 |
|
|
|
| Mojo online blog |
_Bauer |
2009 |
|
250 |
|
|
|
| New Internationalist online feature |
|
2011 |
|
125 |
|
|
XX
|
| Observer online comment piece |
_GMG |
2009 |
|
200 |
|
|
|
| Observer feature online only |
_GMG |
2003 |
|
200 |
0 |
|
|
| Pitchfork 2500-word feature @ $50 |
|
2009 |
|
20 |
|
|
XXXX
|
| Science Business web only |
|
2010 |
|
400 |
|
|
|
| The Ecologist |
|
2012 |
|
150 |
|
GR |
|
| The Ecologist 1600-word feature, first offered £280, negotiated to £330 all rights |
|
2010 |
|
207 |
0 |
|
X
|
| The Quietus features |
|
2008 |
|
100 |
|
|
X
|
| The Quietus feature |
|
2008 |
|
150 |
|
|
X
|
| The Register news story/feature |
|
2007 |
|
250 |
|
|
|
| The Stool Pigeon news report |
|
2010 |
|
50 |
|
|
XX
|
| Visual Systems Journal (Matt Publishing - or Bearpark?) Technical articles |
|
2002 |
|
250 |
0 |
|
|
| 24HourMuseum website First Web Rights |
|
2002 |
|
300 |
|
|
|
| allmusic.com Rock musician "biographies" for online encyclopaedia all rights |
|
2007 |
|
70 |
|
|
XXXX
|
| Aol travel pieces - PR facilities |
_AOLTW |
2009 |
|
0 |
|
|
XXXX
|
| Associated New Media 900 words travel for website all rights |
_Assoc |
2003 |
|
250 |
0 |
|
|
| BBC News Online 800 word news feature inc pix |
_BBC |
2010 |
|
213 |
|
|
X
|
| BBC News Online 350 word news story |
_BBC |
2010 |
|
100 |
|
|
|
| BBC News Online 1000-word news feature inc pix |
_BBC |
2010 |
|
213 |
|
|
X
|
| BBC News Online 800 word news feature inc pix |
_BBC |
2010 |
|
213 |
0 |
|
|
| BBC Online licence not specified - they seem to have a payment on publication policy - last time payment took nearly 5 months |
_BBC |
2005 |
|
218 |
|
|
|
| BBC website |
_BBC |
2010 |
|
200 |
|
|
XX
|
| BikeRadar.com news online, all rights |
_Future |
2010 |
|
150 |
|
|
XXX
|
| blueyonder.co.uk 300 word film review @ £125 = |
_TeleW |
2006 |
|
417 |
|
|
O
|
| C4 Music website First Online rights |
_C4 |
2005 |
|
200 |
|
|
|
| Channel 4 programme support booklets + web material, per 1000 |
_C4 |
2002 |
|
275 |
|
|
O
|
| Channel 4 writing for website |
_C4 |
2001 |
|
250 |
|
|
|
| Channel 4 website essay for Dispatches - no improvement in years! all rights |
_C4 |
2005 |
|
275 |
|
|
X
|
| Channel 4 website same rate for 3 years |
_C4 |
2005 |
|
275 |
|
|
|
| Channel 4 website |
_C4 |
2000 |
|
250 |
|
|
|
| condenet.com $1 a word |
_CondN |
2001 |
|
690 |
|
|
|
| Demand Studios web only |
|
2010 |
|
50 |
|
|
XXX
|
| Digital-Lifestyles.info news articles |
|
2004 |
|
100 |
|
|
X
|
| EMusic 250+ word album review for £150 All rights |
|
2007 |
|
600 |
|
|
O
|
| eMusic Q+A features all rights plus indemnity clause non-negotiable |
|
2007 |
|
214 |
|
|
X
|
| eMusic reviews all rights with useful "license back", tricky indemnity clause |
|
2007 |
|
500 |
0 |
|
O
|
| emusic.com 200-word review @ £100 (up from $pound;75 for a nominal 150 words, in practice was 200) |
|
2009 |
|
500 |
|
|
|
| emusic.com album reviews , all rights |
|
2009 |
|
500 |
|
GR |
|
| emusic.com short features 700-1000 words , all rights |
|
2009 |
|
250 |
0 |
GR |
|
| eMusic.com 200-word music reviews all rights + obnoxious indemnity clause |
|
2007 |
|
500 |
|
GR |
|
| emusic.com short features 700-1000 words, all rights |
|
2000 |
|
350 |
|
GR |
|
| ESPNSoccernet |
_Disney |
2008 |
|
100 |
|
|
|
| Film4 website 1800 words for £200 = |
_C4 |
2006 |
|
111 |
|
|
XXX
|
| FirstPersonGlobal all rights |
|
2002 |
|
300 |
|
|
|
| Forty Fourth Publishing arts reviews for new as-yet-unnamed website: 800 words @ £200 |
|
2011 |
|
250 |
|
|
|
| Forty Fourth Publishing arts reviews for new as yet unnamed website: 500 words @ £100 |
|
2011 |
|
200 |
|
|
X
|
| Freeserve websites feature article |
|
2002 |
|
285 |
|
|
|
| Guardian Unlimited interview - note house agreement minimum rate for print is £247 + £16 for web! |
_GMG |
2008 |
|
150 |
|
|
X
|
| Guardian unlimited |
|
2008 |
|
267 |
|
|
|
| Guardian website 400-600 word blog - if used - pays £77 terms unclear - undercuts agreed paper minimum of £247 + £16 for online use |
_GMG |
2007 |
|
154 |
|
|
X
|
| Guardian website 800 words "Comment is free" blog for £75 terms not clear, massively undercuts agreed paper rates |
_GMG |
2007 |
|
93 |
|
|
XX
|
| Handbag.com Features |
|
2003 |
|
300 |
|
|
|
| icircle.com (freeserve.co.uk) feature All rights |
|
2003 |
|
200 |
|
|
X
|
| ideastap.com |
|
2009 |
|
350 |
|
|
X
|
| Improvement and Development Agency feature writing no terms specified |
_HMG |
2002 |
|
200 |
|
|
|
| Institute for War and Peace Reporting |
|
2002 |
|
75 |
|
|
|
| Intelfax content for UK Foreign Office websites no exes! |
|
2002 |
|
125 |
0 |
|
|
| justfornurses.co.uk feature writing, 700 words @ £300, no terms specified |
|
2002 |
|
450 |
|
GR |
O
|
| Knowledge@Wharton.edu 1500-word feature web only |
|
2010 |
|
667 |
|
GR |
O
|
| MSN Travel 2500 - 3000 word piece all rights |
|
2010 |
|
200 |
|
GR |
|
| MSN website all rights |
|
2010 |
|
200 |
|
GR |
X
|
| Music website re-use of old print article online |
|
2009 |
|
500 |
|
|
|
| Music website re-use of old print article online |
|
2009 |
|
75 |
|
|
|
| new website travel |
_NI |
2000 |
|
300 |
|
|
|
| NHS website copy |
_HMG |
2008 |
|
200 |
|
|
X
|
| opendemocracy.net 1000-word column |
|
2006 |
|
100 |
|
|
X
|
| OpenDemocracy.org retained copyright |
|
2004 |
|
0 |
|
|
|
| Oxford Analytica |
|
2011 |
|
225 |
|
|
|
| pinke.biz |
|
2009 |
|
50 |
|
|
XX
|
| Project Maverick (I-Pad app magazine) feature |
_Virgin |
2010 |
|
500 |
|
|
O
|
| Royal Society Write up scientific discussion web-only so far |
|
2003 |
|
250 |
|
|
|
| The Royal Society writeup of scientific meeting for web use - 5000 words total |
|
2003 |
|
250 |
|
|
|
| Snack Media (complained of by Roy Greenslade on his Guardian blog |
|
2011 |
|
10 |
|
|
XXXX
|
| Snowsports websites online content management day (7 hours) |
|
2011 |
|
120 |
|
|
XX
|
| Soccernet all rights |
_Disney |
2007 |
|
100 |
|
|
X
|
| Suite101.de 1000 word articles for Web use only: offered €0.00 plus 50% of revenue from Google Ad-click, if any. Turned down! |
|
2009 |
|
0 |
|
|
|
| TeacherNet web feature |
_HMG |
2004 |
|
244 |
|
|
|
| theregister.co.uk |
|
2003 |
|
250 |
|
|
|
| thewriter.com |
|
2012 |
|
300 |
|
|
|
| TotalJobs.com 600-word features @ £100 all rights, pay only on publication and no guarantee of publication; member 'thanks but no thanks' |
_RBI |
2010 |
|
167 |
|
|
|
| Travel copywriting company country / sports guides |
|
2010 |
|
25 |
|
|
XXXX
|
| Virgin Media website entertainment features, 500 words @ £125 first world online rights (FWOR) by default (no rights specified) |
_Virgin |
2010 |
|
250 |
|
|
|
| Website short articles for site yet to go online , all rights |
|
2010 |
|
15 |
|
|
XXX
|
| Website for a national charity 12 monthly articles, each £130 for 800 words web use indefinitely |
|
2005 |
|
162.50 |
|
|
|
| www.40plustravelandleisure.com travel article with photographs first electronic rights |
|
2007 |
|
45 |
|
GR |
XXXX
|
| www.wired.com news feature First American Serial rights US$500 |
_Lycos |
2005 |
|
250 |
|
|
X
|
| www.wired.com features US$350 First American serial |
_Lycos |
2005 |
|
186 |
|
|
X
|
| Yahoo |
_Yahoo |
2012 |
|
333 |
|
|
|
| yahoo.com re-use of blog articles in online archive - net to freelance is $150 from gross payment of |
_yahoo |
2008 |
|
310 |
|
|
|
|
The above are the rates for Words, per 1000 / online notified by members up to 15 May 2012.
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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
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| 3 The year in which the rate was reported | Year
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4 Currency: either or  | ¤
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| 5 Amount paid for basic licence - e.g. first use in print: | | Basic fee
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| 6 Paid for extra licences - web use, database resale... (no data pre Jun 2000) | | ... | Extras
|
| 7 "Going Rate" according to experienced NUJ members - do try to better it: | | ... | ... | GR
|
| or Minimum rate set out in NUJ House Agreement (more will be made soon): | | ... | ... | HA
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| 8 Underpaid, in the fallible opinion of the Freelance editor: | | 50 | 0 | | X
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| or Just sometimes we're pleasantly surprised: | | 1500 | 300 | | O
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