Your number
$1,000
Your rate card
- Day rate$1,000 per day
- Hourlyfor anything that does not fit a day$125 per hour
- An HR project$4,500 per project
- Monthly retainer$3,600 per month
What to charge for each thing (4)
- Employee handbook$2,925 each
- Hiring process and interview kit$3,600 each
- Compensation bands$4,725 each
- Fractional HR$3,600 per month
US rates for hr consultants at your level, adjusted for your market. What you last got wins.
For 8 hours at $125, the quote is $1,000.
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.
HR consultants at your level day at about $1,000; you sit inside the range, so quote it without apology.
An HR project runs $2,000 to $8,000 and takes about 30 hours of your time; at your hourly that is $3,750. 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.