Your number
$625
Your rate card
- Day rate$950 per day
- Hourlyfor anything that does not fit a day$125 per hour
- A voiceover spotsession plus usage; e-learning and narration by the finished hour$625 per project
What to charge for each thing (6)
- Session, up to two hours$325 per session
- 30-second digital spot, 12 months$550 each
- Broadcast spot, 13 weeks$1,150 each
- E-learning or narration$200 per finished hour
- Audiobook$200 per finished hour
- Pickups$95 per session
US rates for voice actors at your level, adjusted for your market. What you last got wins.
- a voiceover spotsession plus usage; e-learning and narration by the finished hour$625
For a voiceover spot, the quote is $625.
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.
Voice actors usually day at $500 to $1,200. You are above it. That is fine when the work is, and it is the reason to say it plainly and show the work.
A voiceover spot runs $300 to $1,500 and takes about 2 hours of your time; at your hourly that is $250. The number is the higher of the two, because the client is buying the outcome, not the hours.