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Wednesday
Feb172010

What Is Your Time Worth?

As is the case with the vast majority of the information on this site, this is an issue that you'll need to grapple with whether you do a longform comic or a gag-a-day strip. Like so much of what we do here, this is an issue that goes across the board: What is your time worth?

Figuring it all out can take a little soul-searching (not to mention wallet-searching), but the time spent can make things really simple when it comes time to suggest a price for your involvement in a project.

This post describes how to determine your "baseline rate," and provides several examples of applying the rate in real-world situations. Log in to read the entire post.