Monday, October 19, 2009

[Avid-L2] Re: OT: Rates?

but, Stefan with a English accent adds $25/hour to your rate. Oh, and a black T-shirt and black jeans, black Converse Chuck Taylors...

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Steve Hullfish <steve4lists@...> wrote:
>
> It also helps to have just a single name. Stefan seems to work well,
> but anything with an international flair will help.
>
> I'm guessing that Shirley's not going to work. I know "Steve" "Stev-o"
> and "Stevarino" are all non-starters.
>
> On Oct 19, 2009, at 11:35 AM, guanacaa@... wrote:
>
> > $1500 a day? Yeowww!
> > Oh well. I'm a little old to move into that end of things. Maybe I
> > could dye my hair and try re-marketing myself.
> >
> > Shirley
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: switthaus <switthaus@...>
> > To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Mon, Oct 19, 2009 4:26 am
> > Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: OT: Rates?
> >
> > Steve is right. Some of the larger spot cutters in the major markets
> > had been
> > making upwards of $1500 or more per day (before the recession). Not
> > sure what,
> > if anything, the economy has done to this. Agencies are a bit of a
> > different
> > animal when it comes to rate. Now, when production companies handle
> > the post
> > for a spot versus the agency hiring post direct, then you can get a
> > squeeze
> > because the prod company sees post as a way to eek out more profit.
> > I just
> > "love" it when a production company/producer tells me after the fact
> > that they
> > have bid me out for the post and here is how much time it will take
> > to edit the
> > gig! Yeah, love that....
> >
> > sw
> >
> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Steve Hullfish <steve4lists@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> >
> > > I would think that the "name" guys cutting spots are easily getting
> > > twice or triple that at the good boutiques. I was never one of those
> > > guys, so I don't know how much they get paid. On some jobs I get
> > close
> > > to that and I'm just a schmuck. My freelance editing rate varies by
> > > almost $400 a day, depending on what people need, who needs it and
> > how
> > > badly - or how badly I need the work or how much I don't want the
> > > hassle.
> > >
> > > that smaller markets are down in the $350 a day range.
> > >
> > > On Oct 16, 2009, at 6:02 PM, guanacaa@ wrote:
> > >
> > > > Once again, I would never ask about your personal rates. I was
> > > > hoping to get actual numbers for what's common in your markets.
> > >
> > >
> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> > >
> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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