Make what the big publications pay with the Freelance Rates Database.
If someone else can sell your article for $4 per word, you can do it too.
Contently publishes a Freelance Rates Database for popular publications, both digital and print. It gives you a better idea of what the big publications pay.
Your first emotion upon reading it may be fury, but that’s a good thing. Ideally, it will leave you incensed at the meager pittances you’ve been accepting all along. Let your fury be the spark that ignites your freelance writing career. And then fan those flames with the winds of change, baby.
To earn the privilege of writing from home, many of us once wrote for pennies a week. We even wrote for page views — whatever we had to do to get bylines. Many of us are still doing it too — hopefully we’re making more than pennies these days, but it’s still surprisingly easy to become ensnared by middlemen who pay $25 or $40 for 500-word articles and then slip quietly around the corner to resell them to national publications for $2 to $4 per word.
Don’t do it. Don’t even be tempted.
Not anymore.
You’re better than this.
Writing isn’t easy. Writers have to engage, entertain and enlighten simultaneously, and anyone who’s ever had a child or owned a pet can attest to how easy that combination isn’t.
If you’re a decent writer and if you’ve been at this thing for more than one dance, those days of boxed macaroni and cheese should be behind you soon — sooner if you spend more time writing queries to publications that pay decent wages and less time beating your hands bloody against the bricks in the digital sweatshops of content mills.
Query more. Write fewer words. Earn bigger payouts.
Make what the big publications pay. It’s easier than you think.
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