Helping to turn a drawing hobby into a cartooning profession
I stumbled upon this site the other day - it helps you work out what sort of hourly rate you should charge given your expenses and the amount of money you want to make at the end of the year.
http://freelanceswitch.com/rates/
Give it a shot and see what you come up with!
Matt Glover has been a professional, freelance cartoonist and illustrator for over ten years, working for clients all over the world. Chewing Pencils aims to share some of the things that helped him turn a hobby into a money making profession.
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Thanks for this, Matt! I tried it and found it extremely helpful–my rates were pretty close to the calculated outcome (whew!), but it’s really nice to have something to go on other than a gut instinct and looking at what other folks charge.
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