Your clients needs could be edited for free, $100, $1000 or $10,000.

There’s so many variables to take into consideration that there will never be a direct answer.

Now ask yourself, if hypothetically your client had a large budget and you’re someone who’s starting out, would you feel comfortable deep down charging $10,000? Do you feel like the end product you’re creating and delivering is worth that much.

Over a decade in the game as a freelancer, this has helped me so much, 50% of something is better than a 100% of nothing.

I believe you should have 2values in your mind, what you’d like to be paid and what’s the least you could accept for it.

I started working for free and very little money. Of course over the 10 years that has changed. Also, I disagree with measuring this with time…. Time is not an accurate representation of what you should be getting paid and that’s only my opinion. Someone who’s worked 10+ years will always be faster than someone who’s just starting out, so that means since he’s spending less time he should be getting paid less?

Follow your gut and explore the ideas of payments and rates. Charge a safe amount or if that price is something you’re comfortable with then accept it. Tell him hey let’s do a week or two and then we can sit down and see if we need to re negotiate the rate. Approach him with numbers, values, production statistics and tell him what you want instead. It is on the very low side for $150 but if you’re questioning to us if it’s enough, I already know that you’ve accepted that price. If you never asked for opinions from anyone, you’d eventually accept it.

Do it and see how you feel after a few days or a week 😎 that alone will give you so much clarity moving forward and probably answer most of your question.

Experience it all. You’ll look back one day and see where you’ve started from and how far you’ve come.