Your number
$2,250
Your rate card
- Day rate$950 per day
- Hourlyfor anything that does not fit a day$125 per hour
- An AI content set$2,250 per project
- Monthly retainer$3,250 per month
What to charge for each thing (4)
- Prompt library$1,250 each
- AI-assisted content month$3,250 per month
- Image or video generation set$900 per set
- Training a team on AI tools$2,000 per session
US rates for ai content and prompt specialists at your level, adjusted for your market. What you last got wins.
For an ai content set, the quote is $2,250.
To take home $85,000 after $9,000 of costs and 30% tax you need to bill $134,286 a year. At 24 billable hours a week for 47 weeks that is $125 an hour, $950 a day. Anything under that is a pay cut you did not agree to.
AI content and prompt specialists usually day at $400 to $900. You are above it. That is fine when the work is, and it is the reason to say it plainly and show the work.
An AI content set runs $500 to $4,000 and takes about 12 hours of your time; at your hourly that is $1,500. The number is the higher of the two, because the client is buying the outcome, not the hours.
A retainer is the month, not the hours: a set scope, paid up front on the 1st. It is priced about 20% under the same work bought one at a time, in exchange for the certainty; three months minimum, or it is not a retainer.