Your number
$2,000
Your rate card
- Day rate$950 per day
- Hourlyfor anything that does not fit a day$125 per hour
- Editing a piececut, two rounds of notes, delivery$2,000 per project
What to charge for each thing (9)
- Short social cut (under 60 seconds)$350 per video
- Long-form YouTube edit (10 to 20 minutes)$1,175 per video
- Podcast episode, video and audio$325 per episode
- Brand film or commercial edit$2,925 per project
- Event or wedding highlight$1,475 per project
- Revision round past the two included$150 per round
- Color grade$675 per project
- Captions and delivery in three crops$90 per video
- Rush, under 72 hours40% of the fee
US rates for video editors at your level, adjusted for your market. What you last got wins.
- editing a piececut, two rounds of notes, delivery$2,000
For editing a piece, the quote is $2,000.
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.
Video editors usually day at $450 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.
Editing a piece runs $600 to $3,500 and takes about 16 hours of your time; at your hourly that is $2,000. The number is the higher of the two, because the client is buying the outcome, not the hours.