The Freelance ELT and Education Editorial Rates and Fees Survey
The Survey of Freelance Editorial Rates and Fees is run every three years, and the fourth survey took place at the end of 2022. The next survey will take place in 2025 and will include both ELT and Education freelancers.
The survey is detailed and gathers data on fees and hourly rates across the ELT and Education publishing sectors for such tasks as proofreading, copy editing, content editing, writing, project management, consulting and training others. It also looks at emerging trends in negotiations, preferences for payment by set fees or hourly rates, issues surrounding increasing your rates in line with inflation, etc.
The Freelance ELT and Education Author Rates and Fees Survey
The first Survey of Freelance ELT Author Editorial Rates and Fees took place in 2023. We plan to run this survey in parallel to the editorial rates and fees survey every three years going forward and in the next survey include authors who work in Education publishing for the first time. The next survey will take place in 2026.
The survey gathers data on hourly rates, fees and royalties across the ELT and Education publishing sectors for the authoring of various types of content. It also looks at emerging trends in negotiations, methods of remuneration, and so on.
Please note: It is important to remember that the information gathered in both surveys is in no way a recommendation or endorsement of any of the trends or rates/methods of remuneration that emerge. The listed rates are simply a snap shot of actual renumeration received by respondents, rather than an indication of recommended rates.
Survey reports
Freelance Publishing Professionals members have full access to the reports for all previous surveys in the members' area of the directory website. If you are not a member, you can download the most recent report for each of the surveys below. We will add you to our mailing list to ensure that you are notified when the next survey results are released. You can unsubscribe at any time.
