This IS the Avid L2: RE: [Avid-L2] Re: OT: Rates?

Monday, October 19, 2009

RE: [Avid-L2] Re: OT: Rates?

My favourite is "Well, we didn't offer you that job because it was only a
small budget".

Let me at least consider it!!

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-----Original Message-----
From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
switthaus
Sent: 19 October 2009 12:26
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
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....

--- 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.
>
>
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