My fee for technical writing services is:
£420 per day, no VAT
I am not VAT registered (below the VAT threshold).
For smaller projects, I do offer a half-day package. This is more for consultancy jobs where you just want me to offer advice or fix something.
My price is based on my experience and the average contract technical author price quoted at IT Jobs Watch.
That’s difficult to say as there are so many variables:
Is your product complex or relatively simple?
Are your subject matter experts going to be available to answer my questions promptly?
Will I be able to get demos of your product’s features?
Is your product stable or is it in the process of being updated?
Do you have existing content or does everything need to be created from scratch?
Do you have any customer research available?
In the past, I’ve produced short user guides for around £2k with longer ones creeping up to more around the £8k mark. But the £8k one was then reused to produce manuals for similar products at a much lower price. That’s one of the benefits of content reuse!
Typically, clients hire me to work on a day rate for a set project to see how we get along. That usually ends up with repeat work and long-term relationships that last years.
No, absolutely not. You can’t measure good communication by the word count. It’s often harder to write something that’s clean and concise than it is to write a paragraph of waffle. So you’d be paying more for inferior content.
I offer day rates and half-day rates so that I can produce good quality work.
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