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Updated: 2025-07-09
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.
Tell us what you've been paid for Cartoons / all |
Freelance Fees Guide
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| Publication / Programme - details & terms | Group | Year |  |
Total paid | GR |
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| Big Issue Southwest+Cymru: weekly colour | _BI | 1998 |  |
10.00 | XXXX | |
| Big Issue Scotland; per agreement, each | _BI | 1997 | |
30.00 | HA | |
| Dateline (rise promised) | 1992 | |
50.00 | |||
| Guardian editorial cartoon | _GMG | 2024 | |
1100.00 | ||
| Guardian cartoon strip | 2024 | |
500.00 | |||
| Independent Editorial cartoon | _Lebedev | 2012 | |
100.00 | X | |
| Observer | _GMG | 1995 | |
125.00 | ||
| Prospect DPS cartoon | 2024 | |
1200.00 | |||
| Reuters World (in-house mag) B+W | _Reuter | 1993 | |
65.00 | ||
| IBM mag colour | 1993 | |
120.00 | |||
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Tell us what you've been paid for Crosswords / all |
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| Publication / Programme - details & terms | Group | Year | |
Total paid | GR |
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| Guardian genius | _GMG | 2025 | |
236.78 | HA | |
| Guardian prize crossword | _GMG | 2025 | |
215.26 | HA | |
| Guardian cryptic | _GMG | 2025 | |
204.49 | HA | |
| Guardian quick crossword | _GMG | 2025 | |
43.05 | HA | |
| Puzzle book (Igloo Books) full production, typesetting and design all rights assigned to company | 2005 | |
2500.00 | X | ||
| Series of children's books, payment per book compiling crosswords and other puzzles, 2-3 for each title of 12 in the series flat fee for all rights, no other exes paid | 1995 | |
75.00 | X | ||
| Small Regional Paper themed crosswords once a month, each | 2004 | |
50.00 | |||
| Small regional weekly newspaper themed crosswords, two per month - to be reviewed in Jan 2004 | 2004 | |
50.00 | X | ||
| Specialist magazine 13x13 themed cryptic crossword, monthly | 2013 | |
80.00 | X | ||
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Tell us what you've been paid for Illustrations / all |
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| Publication / Programme - details & terms | Group | Year | |
Total paid | GR |
XXXX |
| Expressions per job - production/exes 50 | 2018 |  |
25.00 | |||
| Guardian opinion illustration | _GMG | 2025 | |
383.35 | HA | |
| Guardian leader cartoon | _GMG | 2025 | |
461.25 | ||
| Guardian sport illustration | _GMG | 2025 | |
237.80 | HA | |
| Guardian quarter page | _GMG | 2025 | |
281.88 | HA | |
| Guardian half page | _GMG | 2025 | |
384.38 | HA | |
| Guardian full page | _GMG | 2025 | |
486.88 | HA | |
| Guardian online only | _GMG | 2025 | |
384.38 | HA | |
| Time double-page spread, overnight turnaround , no exes first use | _AOLTW | 2015 | |
1800.00 | GR | O |
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Being interviewed as an expert and punditry in general. Except, for historical reasons, the majority of this work, which is done for broadcasters - see Broadcasting / news, Broadcasting / regional and Broadcasting / other. There, going rates apply - see the Fees Guide link. Here, negotiations are wide open. | ||||||
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Tell us what you've been paid for Punditry / not broadcast |
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| Publication / Programme - details & terms | Group | Year | |
Total paid | GR |
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| Queen Album By Album (book) 30-min pundit interview to be transcribed/edited by interviewer (job refused so don't know terms) | 2017 | |
175.00 | |||
| Rock's Back Pages fee for digging out a tape of an interview with a musician | 2024 | |
35.00 | |||
| A music festival (Poland) onstage interview with musician, about 60 minutes | 2022 |  |
300.00 | |||
| A music festival (UK) onstage interview with musician, about an hour | 2022 | |
250.00 | |||
| A tabloid paper online Approx. 10 minute Zoom descriptive technical voiceover report on video content - all rights | _NI | 2025 | |
200.00 | ||
| An arts event onstage interview with well known artist, 90 minutess plus chair Q+A - | 2022 | |
500.00 | |||
| Cambridge Festival on-stage live "Parky"-style interview, all exes paid, live rights only | 2006 | |
220.00 | |||
| Chairing 1-day international conf on specialist subject all travel, accommodation, subsistence paid | 2016 | |
500.00 | |||
| Cinema and festival hosting Q&As and on-stage interviewing , no licence specified | 2023 | |
200.00 | GR | O | |
| Classic Rock DVDs (not Classic Rock the mag) being interviewed about a band | 2006 | |
150.00 | |||
| Corporate hospitality interview musician on stage (suggested by music journalists) npt less than | 2024 | |
500.00 | |||
| Film company taking part in a symposium, all expenses paid | 2019 | |
150.00 | |||
| Film company 20-minute publicity interview with star | 1998 | |
1500.00 | OO | ||
| Large technology vendor Presenting at internal meeting paid for preparation and slides, travel and attendance (3 days work); travel and hotel paid; publisher took £500 fee on top | 2007 | |
1500.00 | XX | ||
| Managers of a musician fee for digging out tape of one interview with the musician and lending it to copy - further payment promised if any of the interview used | 2024 | |
150.00 | |||
| Managers of a musician fee for digging out tape of one interview with the musician and lending it to copy - further payment promised if any of the interview used | 2024 | |
100.00 | |||
| Managers of a musician licensing extracts of an interview with the musician | 2024 | |
500.00 | |||
| Music conference chairing 2-day music-related conference - negotiated up from doing one session for free | 2022 | |
2000.00 | |||
| Music event taking part in an hour-long panel with musicians | 2022 | |
250.00 | |||
| Music publisher Live Q&A recorded for electronic press kit | 2025 | |
800.00 | XXXX | ||
| Music publisher go to Berlin to interview someone per day - expenses paid | 2023 | |
1200.00 | |||
| Music Review DVD being interviewed about a band for an hour or so | 2006 | |
275.00 | |||
| National women's organisation local group 40-minute talk | 2017 | |
60.00 | |||
| Prism films offered for talking about U2 (a music combo) for DVD - at your place | 2006 | |
150.00 | X | ||
| Prism films talking about U2 for DVD - at their place | 2006 | |
200.00 | X | ||
| Prism Films 1-hour "pundit" interview for music DVD, upped from £150 for contributor "having proved themself" | 2006 | |
200.00 | |||
| Prism Films 1-hour "pundit" interview for music DVD | 2006 | |
150.00 | X | ||
| Record company talking about a band for DVD - negotiated by classifying part as 'expenses' | 2006 | |
275.00 | |||
| Sky News one live TV punditry, one pre-recorded - | 2018 | |
150.00 | |||
| Sony Music hosting a panel and interviewing at a music convention | 2025 | |
1250.00 | |||
| South Bank Centre expert panel discussion participant 90 mins, exes £60 + | _HMG | 2015 | |
300.00 | ||
| University in UK One hour talk followed by Q&A up to one hour £60/day subsistence + £250 max travel expenses | 2015 | |
150.00 | |||
| Vendor 40 min presentation plus 10 min podcast day rate, expenses (travel and hotel) paid on top; this is half the fee paid by the client, the rest went to the publisher (ie client paid 1k total) | 2007 | |
500.00 | X | ||
| Victoria & Albert Museum offered £750 for a talk, which member agreed instantly by mistake - so asked for around £500 of freebies from sponsor, and got them | _HMG | 2016 | |
1250.00 | ||
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Tell us what you've been paid for Retainers / all |
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| Publication / Programme - details & terms | Group | Year | |
Total paid | GR |
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| Mixmag Retainer per month | 2017 | |
2300.00 | |||
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Tell us what you've been paid for Teaching / all |
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| Publication / Programme - details & terms | Group | Year | |
Total paid | GR |
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| A Cambridge University college Half-day teaching the business of freelancing - travel paid, lunch provided | 2019 | |
300.00 | |||
| A writers' association day teaching | 2015 | |
450.00 | O | ||
| An American non-profit educational organisation 90-min Zoom session, talking, interviewing another guest, chairing Q&A | 2021 | |
500.00 | |||
| An American university One-hour Zoom teaching session as expert | 2021 | |
100.00 | X | ||
| An American university one hour Zoom teaching session as guest expert (negotiated up from $100 first offer) | 2021 | |
150.00 | X | ||
| Birkbeck College (reported to journoresources.org.uk) associate lecturer in digital journalism per hour | 2025 | |
68.13 | |||
| Book writer coaching per hour | 2025 | |
75.00 | |||
| City Lit, London teaching day no expenses | 2016 | |
206.00 | X | ||
| City University One hour teaching, including 1 hour prep | 2020 | |
63.26 | |||
| Corporate client writing workshop for professionals (reported on mumsnet.com) per day | 2021 | |
400.00 | |||
| Corporate client management training per day (reported on mumsnet.com) | 2021 | |
1000.00 | |||
| Corporate training per day (reported by NibWeb member) | 2021 | |
800.00 | |||
| Federation of Entertainment Unions (FEU) teaching day £350 for 1st lesson, 400 thereafter, plus exes | _TU | 2016 | |
400.00 | ||
| Ffotogallery 2-hour talk on ethics of photography , - included audio recording and slides shared online afterwards | 2025 | |
150.00 | |||
| Google Copywriting Google training content, per 1000 words | _Google | 2020 | |
400.00 | ||
| Internal training custom training, executive coaching, 4 times 2hours each - | _Assoc | 2018 | |
1000.00 | O | |
| Large media group Preparing and delivering one-day customised training course on specialist journalism skills at its offices, travel expenses paid | 2016 | |
600.00 | |||
| Music journalism degree course 2-hour seminar, exes paid | 2014 | |
150.00 | |||
| Music journalism degree course two-hour seminar | 2014 | |
150.00 | |||
| Music journalism degree course two-hour seminar | 2014 | |
150.00 | |||
| Posh private school in Switzerland music journalist gives talks to pupils per day , terms - expenses paid | 2023 | |
600.00 | |||
| Private client social media, publisher advice, training, per hour | 2016 | |
36.00 | |||
| Private media tech training company Live Adobe training online per day | 2021 | |
200.00 | GR | ||
| Private school One day of talks about journalism in Europe, exes paid | 2023 | |
600.00 | |||
| Random House Online Writing Course - 10 weeks 25 students per class, online support and constant feedback. They 'estimate' 1.5 hours a day but with 25 beginners likely to be more than 3 hours per day. (Tutor gets this for teaching 25 people who pay £12,475...) Turned job down. | _PRH | 2014 | |
1250.00 | XXXX | |
| Random House Online Writing Course - 10 weeks 25 students per class, online support and constant feedback. They 'estimate' 1.5 hours a day but with 25 beginners likely to be more than 3 hours per day. (Tutor gets this for teaching 25 people who pay £12,475...) Turned job down. | _PRH | 2014 | |
1250.00 | XXXX | |
| Richmond WS (what that?) day teaching PR & writing | 2019 | |
350.00 | |||
| Rugby School (History Faculty/Archive) half-day workshop on interviewing techniques, for senior students , prod/exes 12.00 | 2023 | |
60.00 | XXXX | ||
| Trade association teaching copyediting and proofreading skills (distance learning/remote); per hour | 2022 | |
36.20 | |||
| Trade association teaching copyediting and proofreading skills (distance learning/remote); per hour | 2022 | |
36.20 | |||
| University in UK Two-hour group activity £60/day subsistence + £250 max travel expenses | 2015 | |
250.00 | |||
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Tell us what you've been paid for Tip-offs / news |
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| Publication / Programme - details & terms | Group | Year | |
Total paid | GR |
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| Daily Mail information for short diary column item | _Assoc | 2023 | |
150.00 | O | |
| Daily Mail information for short but featured diary item | _Assoc | 2023 | |
300.00 | O | |
| Guardian rate specified for regional agencies in document dated 13/12/2011 and still referenced online | _GMG | 2024 | |
50.00 | XX | |
| Guardian diary item tip-off | _GMG | 2014 | |
30.00 | X | |
| Guardian diary item tip-off | _GMG | 2014 | |
30.00 | X | |
| Private Eye tip-off for 50-word article | 2016 | |
20.00 | |||
| Private Eye 20-word tip-off | 2015 | |
10.00 | X | ||
| The Sun exclusive tip-off on celebrity wedding (front page) | _NI | 2016 | |
3000.00 | ||
| Healthcare journal, unnamed background for correspondents | 2014 | |
66.00 | |||
| STV tip-off - follow up provided exclusive | 2025 | |
200.00 | O | ||
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Tell us what you've been paid for Translation / all |
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| Publication / Programme - details & terms | Group | Year | |
Total paid | GR |
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| Buzzfeed per day (unspecified language pairs) | 2017 | |
160.00 | |||
| Daily Mail two days' work to gut a book, provide highlights and translate key passages 5-600 words | _Assoc | 2012 | |
450.00 | ||
| ICT Update 1000 words | 2012 | |
60.00 | XX | ||
| Louis Vuitton Travel Guides translation of guide book into English, per 1000 words | 2014 | |
180.00 | |||
| Louis Vuitton Travel Guides translation of guide book into English, per 1000 words | 2014 | |
180.00 | |||
| Louis Vuitton Travel Guides translation of guide book into English, per 1000 words | 2014 | |
180.00 | |||
| Mail on Sunday fixer and translator day | _Assoc | 2017 | |
150.00 | X | |
| Academic client translating 19th-century texts from German to English: terms unclear! | 2020 | |
2100.00 | |||
| Agency Fish Ltd inflight mags etc, per 1000 | _Fish | 2013 | |
120.00 | ||
| BBC World Service translation | _BBC | 1995 | |
35.00 | X | |
| Digital Radio Development Bureau from English into Simplified Mandarin (China), per 1000 paid by agency | 2006 | |
115.00 | |||
| general translation translation | 2007 | |
85.00 | GR | ||
| High Court interpreting day | _HMG | 1998 | |
200.00 | ||
| International Road Transport Union website translation from Russian, 4000+ words | 2014 | |
460.00 | |||
| International Road Transport Union website translation from Russian, 4000+ words | 2014 | |
460.00 | |||
| Management consultancy platform internationalising a platform - English to Portuguese - advertised on Twitter - per 1000 words | 2023 | |
120.00 | |||
| museum guide translation from English into German flat fee (no royalties) per 1000 words | 2001 | |
75.00 | |||
| PR departments translations of PR texts and newspaper articles per 500 words | 2016 | |
40.00 | XX | ||
| Reuters Interpreting, per 2hr session | _Reuter | 1996 | |
200.00 | ||
| Scottish court interpreting Intrepretation work in the Scottish Courts -travel costs not covered (presume per hour) | _HMG | 2012 | |
18.00 | GR | X |
| Sky TV Interpreting, per 2hr session | _NI | 1996 | |
200.00 | ||
| Small specialist PR company research and translation per day, travel exes paid | 2013 | |
250.00 | O | ||
| Text translation per 1000 | 1996 | |
70.00 | |||
| TF1 - TV France 2000 words (French/English) | 2016 | |
570.00 | |||
| Translation German-English and English-German, non-technical, per A4 page (via #FreelancerPayGap) | 2020 | |
80.00 | |||
| Translation German-English and English-German, technical, per A4 page (via #FreelancerPayGap) | 2020 | |
100.00 | |||
| Translation agency proofing English-Nordic translations, per hour (agency charges client £45) | 2006 | |
30.00 | |||
| TV documentary translation and transcription TV documentary rushes, per day | 2020 | |
150.00 | X | ||
| Unnamed Public Relations departments translations of PR texts and newspaper articles per 1000 words | 2016 | |
80.00 | |||
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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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