 Words, other / 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, other / online |
Freelance Fees Guide |
| Publication/Programme - details & terms |
Group |
Year |
¤ |
Basic fee |
Extras
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| Fair Play 100-180 words NIBs |
_Informa |
2005 |
 |
15 |
|
|
XX
|
| Guardian 'Comment' blog |
_GMG |
2009 |
|
85 |
|
|
|
| Guardian 600-word blog for arts section - frequently spiked, with loose promised of unspecified kill fee no exes |
_GMG |
2008 |
|
85 |
|
GR |
XX
|
| Guardian 500 words Arts Blog |
_GMG |
2008 |
|
77 |
|
|
|
| Guardian Comment is Free blog - negotiated 267 words for fee instead of usual 500 words |
_GMG |
2008 |
|
77 |
|
|
|
| Guardian Comment is free |
_GMG |
2009 |
|
80 |
|
|
|
| Hip Hop Connection 100-word album reviews |
|
2008 |
|
15 |
|
|
X
|
| Horse + Hound Online news story, up to 400 words no terms quoted |
_IPC |
2003 |
|
35 |
|
|
XXXX
|
| Public Finance blogs, "traditionally good payer, no pays nothing for blogs" |
_Pearson |
2009 |
|
0 |
|
|
|
| Telegraph stories used online only, regardless of length |
_BarcB |
2009 |
|
25 |
|
|
XXXX
|
| The Business column FBS |
|
2008 |
|
200 |
|
GR |
|
| Times Online general news story |
_NI |
2006 |
|
120 |
|
|
|
| Urban Junkies around 120-250 words per piece for newsletters |
|
2006 |
|
40 |
|
GR |
|
| Yahoo Live review 4-500 words all rights |
_Yahoo |
2008 |
|
40 |
|
GR |
XXXX
|
| allmusic.com album review 100 words upwards |
|
2009 |
 |
17 |
|
|
XXX
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| allmusic.com album reviews (no fixed length, 100 words upwards) all rights |
|
2007 |
|
22 |
|
|
XXX
|
| AOL UK 500 words + 10 images |
_AOLTW |
2009 |
|
200 |
|
|
|
| Arts council Birmingham website 1500 words with pics licensed web only |
_HMG |
2008 |
|
150 |
|
|
|
| BBC News Online foreign news story - 500 words no actual contract issued |
_BBC |
2001 |
|
91 |
0 |
|
XXX
|
| BBC News Online 700 word article in environmental Earth section. |
_BBC |
2008 |
|
130 |
|
|
XXX
|
| BBC News Online Set of 6 pictures and accompanying words |
_BBC |
2008 |
|
230 |
|
|
XXX
|
| BBC website 150-wd reviews for Collective website all rights |
_BBC |
2007 |
|
37.50 |
|
|
|
| BBC Website, Health section health feature all rights |
_BBC |
2006 |
|
140 |
|
|
|
| culturenorthernireland.org 850 word feature and photos no licence mentioned |
_HMG |
2006 |
|
50 |
|
|
XXXX
|
| dotmusic.com 400-word album review |
_Yahoo |
2008 |
|
30 |
|
|
XXXX
|
| dotmusic.com 400-word gig reviews |
_Yahoo |
2008 |
|
40 |
|
|
XXX
|
| ElectricNews.net (enn.ie) offered for reporting on a 5 hour long (televised) event:‹one general story and one interview - obviously member refused. GBP14 per story is not acceptable. |
|
2006 |
 |
40 |
|
|
XXXX
|
| ENN.ie (Electric News Network) feature |
|
2005 |
|
160 |
|
GR |
|
| GetAFreelance.com batch of 10 500-word articles in 3-4 days |
|
2007 |
|
30 |
|
GR |
XXXX
|
| Guardian Comment is Free blog: 800 words |
_GMG |
2007 |
|
75 |
|
|
XXX
|
| Health-News.co.uk Health article, 700 words all rights |
|
2003 |
|
90 |
|
GR |
XXX
|
| londonpaper.com 300 word review (food not covered) |
_NI |
2007 |
|
50 |
|
|
XXX
|
| Macworld online per feature - usually 800-1600 words worldwide rights, in perpetuity plus reprints abroad |
_IDG |
2005 |
|
190 |
|
|
|
| Macworld online any piece worldwide rights, in perpetuity plus reprints abroad |
_Ziff |
2005 |
|
150 |
|
|
|
| msnbc.com re-writing captions text and hyperlinks for interactive newsfile, original copy 2000 words: US$1000 in Nov 2002 taxed at source; full international rights to msnbc.com |
_NBC |
2005 |
|
639 |
|
|
X
|
| Mybeat website album review, 75-100 words |
|
2000 |
|
40 |
|
|
|
| Octopus Travel guides online 7000 to 10,000-word travel guide |
|
2007 |
|
200 |
|
|
XXXX
|
| Online design mag 80 to 200 words |
|
2006 |
|
30 |
|
|
|
| Online gift/novelty catalogue 400 product descriptions (approx 60 words each) |
|
2008 |
|
1550 |
|
|
|
| Online government publication short (up to 500 words) articles for financial section of government website, paid per day assuming 1.5 articles per day; copyright demanded, not taxed at source |
_HMG |
2004 |
|
300 |
0 |
|
|
| Only Group webpages 400 word articles (minimum 100 articles/month) |
other |
2008 |
|
9.52 |
|
|
XXXX
|
| playboy.com 200-word album review |
|
2008 |
|
50 |
|
|
X
|
| Pocket-lint.com Online features: min 500 words, typically 1000+ with 5/6 photos All rights, no expenses |
|
2009 |
|
50 |
|
GR |
XXXX
|
| Public relations copy news stories/features, approx 350 words |
|
2008 |
|
120 |
|
|
|
| RTE online/teletext film review |
_RTE |
2006 |
|
51 |
|
GR |
|
| Sonicboomers website website reuse of old print features, paid per piece non-exclusive, no time limit |
|
2008 |
|
250 |
|
GR |
|
| Telecoms company technical author with experience of mobile services - Bradford - per hour (from contractoruk.com) |
|
2006 |
|
35 |
|
|
|
| Telecoms company technical author with experience of mobile services - Basingstoke - per hour (from contractoruk.com) |
|
2006 |
|
35 |
|
|
|
| Time Team website piece |
_C4 |
2008 |
|
250 |
|
|
|
| Unique Broadcasting (as subcontractors for BBC) 300-350-word album reviews , all rights |
_BBC |
2009 |
|
50 |
|
|
X
|
| Wales Tourist Board writing web content - Cardiff - per hour (from gisajob.com) |
_HMG |
2006 |
|
25 |
|
|
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| wcities.com writing pieces, editing, photos, html work - per piece demand all rights, no contract issued |
|
2001 |
|
2 |
0 |
|
XXXX
|
| www.fool.co.uk 500 word financial article. |
|
2003 |
|
70 |
|
|
X
|
| Yahoo album review 400-500 words all rights |
_Yahoo |
2008 |
|
30 |
|
GR |
XXXX
|
| Yahoo singles reviews 100-150 words each, batches of 8 at a time all rights |
_Yahoo |
2008 |
|
10 |
|
GR |
XXXX
|
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The above are the rates for Words, other / online notified by members up to 10 November 2009.
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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
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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 (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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