Analysis: Let's talk about those freelance rates

A few takeaways from our database

via Dall-E

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Hello friends! Today we’re going to dive a little deeper into the freelance rates database I shared in Tuesday’s newsletter. In case you missed it, it’s exactly what it sounds like: I’ve spent the last year-ish gathering up-to-date rates that freelancers have gotten from some 300+ publications. It’s a living document that I’ll update monthly with new additions, and I’ll remove any that are terribly outdated. (My biggest quibble with databases like these is that you often see ones that have rates from, like, 2017, and that’s no help to anyone. So trust that these are largely …