Re: Hourly rate for script writing?

[voxwoman <voxwoman -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Craigslist postings don't typically pay "market rate" for any jobs listed
there. I've seen tech writing jobs posted for 2/3 what I consider market
rate for my area. It's marginally better than elance for freelance work.

I'm sure the Writer's Guild of America (West) has market guidelines. A
script is a script - regardless of where it is "performed." If you are just
starting out, I would expect to be paid less than scale, but you should at
least know what "scale" is for this work.

-Wendy

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net> wrote:

> Have you searched craigslist.org where a lot of those jobs are posted?
>  I've
> seen compensation on some of those jobs, although I don't remember the
> dollar amount.  I think the rate is relatively low.
>
> Lauren
>
>
> > From: Leonard C. Porrello
>
> > Does anyone know what the hourly rate range would be for a web site
> > script writer on Southern California? A friend has set me up
> > with a gig
> > to write four scripts ranging between 90 seconds to two minutes. At a
> > conversation pace, that comes out to about 800 words.
>
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