Freelance Writer Rates and Your Content

As a freelance writer, you have to keep some standards that can make you happy, but you also have to know when you are being paid to low for your content. Many web content writers are offering their services for a very low rate, which is bring down the rate for everyone. Whether you are starting out as a new freelance writer or you have some experience, you have to start asking for the pay that you deserve. Working for $3 for a 500 word article is degrading.

Your writing skills should be worth more than that. Minimum for a 500 word article should be $8 to $10. This amount is still very low. If you intend to make a living as a freelance writer, you must have pride in your work and ask for more than a penny or less a word. All this does is bring down the rate for all writers.

Take a minute to ask yourself how much you would like to make an hour and adjust your prices accordingly. You do not have to start out accepting low paying writing jobs because that is all you can find. If you stick to your guns and only write for a decent price, eventually webmasters will come around and see that no one will write for low rates. This can only help to increase the rates for a freelance writer.