By Joel Bevacqua (Buda) (24.130.194.137) on Monday, February 10, 2003 - 04:12 pm:

I just finished a series of jobs for a client that does syndicated television programs. These were my first ever paid TV gigs, and I want to calibrate what the real market is out there, compared to what I charged. I figure that it will help me in the future, and also it may help out a bunch of you calibrating your jobs.

Here's the deal: I have 6 separate jobs posted on a web page. What I want to know is...

How much would you charge for each particular job, and how long do you think it would take?

Once I get about 20 legitimate responses, I'll drop the bomb - How much I actually charged, and the gory details if anyone needs proof.

I am interested in responses from freelancers like myself, and also bigger companies. If you want to criticize the work, feel free. Just remember for all these jobs I was just one guy working with deadlines, and like I said, it was my first batch of tv jobs. So you know...

Okay: So don't be nice, be honest...

http://www.deadlysystems.com/animjobs.htm

-Joel
(bracing myself for...???)

By Hervé Steff (Hervé) (212.76.255.75) on Tuesday, February 11, 2003 - 12:48 am:

Job4 = $200 to $300
Job6 = $350 to $500

I would not do the 1 one , coz I suck at animation...

By Greg Trent (Trentonia) (128.158.11.42) on Wednesday, February 12, 2003 - 08:26 am:

Job 1 = $1500 - $2000
Job 2 = $500
Job 3 = $500
Job 4 = $250
Job 5 = $250
Job 6 = $250

On jobs 2 & 3, if you did the music yourself, I would add an additional $250 per job. The music was not too complex, it had a repetitive (looping) beat, and was probably put together quickly. Jobs 2 thru 6 use common elements and that's why I priced them lower. If the african-american stuff had been done for a different client in a defferent market than the latino stuff, I would double the prices on those.
By the way, good work. Keep it up.

By Ken Mac (Kenmac) (67.83.211.28) on Wednesday, February 12, 2003 - 10:02 am:

I wouldn't charge anything less than $30,000.

By Psyhke (Jbeck) (24.163.209.122) on Wednesday, February 12, 2003 - 08:47 pm:

#1 has got to be worth at least a week of billing. $3 - 4$K at least? Maybe we're conditioned to think that religious content is typically for a smaller, grass-roots type market that can't afford much. But, for certain clients, it seems like something like that could go for far more than that even.

By Joel Bevacqua (Buda) (24.130.194.137) on Thursday, February 13, 2003 - 02:15 pm:

Wow. Some interesting responses. Okay, I have 10 replies so far from all the mailing lists I posted to, so keep em coming people, just 10 more to go...