NUJ Freelance Fees Guide: Design - All

Design

Please note that the suggested rates below are minima; that rates for copyright works are for limited licences; and that VAT is not included. See notes on negotiating rates and find a freelance.

As well as doing creative design, designers are often required to create templates and to set styles for sub-editors to use for lay-out purposes. Particularly when contracting for such work, it is important to be clear that the rate agreed covers meetings, revisions and debugging of the templates.

Read me first! Design advice

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Reported rates, to compare for Design

The suggested rates (know a better rate? tell us!)
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See: Online and digital media / production rates

NUJ members discuss rates etc for shifts in general

NUJ members discuss rates etc for design

RATES: Books

Jacket + cover design: producing rough and final artwork project fee		400
Design management: From initial design to print per hour		28
Creative design and visuals: original page layout, styling copy to page, specifications and type style, producing templates per hour		28
Page make-up: marking up copy to style, page layout, checking proofs, preparing artwork, mark-ups for printer per hour		20

RATES: Magazines category: A-B: glossy and consumer mags

Advertisement-led supplements/project fee eg 16-page fashion supplement		1700
Day rate		140

RATES: Magazines category: C-D: trade and cheap specialist mags

Day rate		130

RATES: Public relations

See: PR / Production

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The National Union of Journalists must not, can not and would not wish to dictate rates or terms of engagement to members or to editors. The information presented here is for guidance and as an aid to equitable negotiation only.

Suggestions apply to contracts governed by UK law only. In any event, nothing here should be construed as legal advice.