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NUJ Rate for the Job:
recent rates for Other work
Updated: 2025-11-18
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 |
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| Publication / Programme - details & terms | Group | Year |  |
Total paid | GR |
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| Guardian editorial cartoon | _GMG | 2024 |  |
1100.00 | ||
| Guardian cartoon strip | 2024 | |
500.00 | |||
| Prospect DPS cartoon | 2024 | |
1200.00 | |||
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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 | |||
| Book publisher hosting a talk about a musician autobiography from - (plus travel expenses) | 2025 | |
200.00 | |||
| Book publisher hosting a talk about a musician autobiography to - (plus travel expenses) | 2025 | |
600.00 | |||
| 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 | |
| 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 | |||
| 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 go to Berlin to interview someone per day - expenses paid | 2023 | |
1200.00 | |||
| National women's organisation local group 40-minute talk | 2017 | |
60.00 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| An American non-profit educational organisation 90-min Zoom session, talking, interviewing another guest, chairing Q&A | 2021 | |
500.00 | |||
| 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 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Richmond WS (what that?) day teaching PR & writing | 2019 | |
350.00 | |||
| 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 | |||
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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 | |
| Daiy Mail lead item in Eden Confidential diary | 2025 | |
300.00 | O | ||
| Sun tip-off for page lead in print and online | _NI | 2025 | |
350.00 | O | |
| 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 | |||
| Academic client translating 19th-century texts from German to English: terms unclear! | 2020 | |
2100.00 | |||
| Management consultancy platform internationalising a platform - English to Portuguese - advertised on Twitter - per 1000 words | 2023 | |
120.00 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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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| 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:
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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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