Research: How Much To Charge For Your Audio Engineering Services?

Charging money for your services can be an interesting price to work out. Since an audio engineer will be creating their own hourly rate, it is down to them to create their own fee. To achieve a reasonable charge you have to take a few things into consideration; your experience, minimum wage, qualifications, personal costs, and equipment.

To get an idea of how much I want to charge, its a good idea to look into other audio engineer's hourly rate. I visited multiple websites to get an idea of what other audio engineers were charging. One site named "peopleperhour.com" had hourly rates for audio engineers, they all seemed to average out at £20 per hour. I personally think this price is too high for these people. They may have a high experience, however, the fact that the engineers only have 2-8 reviews tells me they are not so experienced.

Therefore, I went to another site named "payscale.com". This site seemed a lot more accurate as it had a lot of data throughout the website about how much audio engineers earn per year, as well as per hour, and general statistics. I looked at both 'audio engineering' and 'sound engineering' as although I know the difference between the jobs, many people online tend to use the terms interchangeably.

These prices seemed a lot more accurate, taking into account different type of people with different types of experiences and qualifications.

Finally, after careful deliberation, it is time for me to set a price for my own services. Firstly, qualifications, since I am studying BTEC Music Technology, I cannot charge my prices high, due to the fact I am a student studying the subject at this current time, therefore, do not have a complete qualification yet. As for experience, I have had quite a lot of experience within this field, recording in studios, as well as live sound engineering. However, I know there are many people out there with a lot more experience than me, therefore, I can charge higher than a person with no experience, but not as high as somebody with a magnitude of experience. I have looked into wages for hourly audio engineering rates, and I have come to the conclusion that I should charge £10 per hour. This is because, I am still a student studying this area audio engineering, however, I do have experience so my services will not be free. I believe this is a fair price for my services.

https://www.payscale.com/research/UK/Job=Sound_Engineer/Salary

https://www.peopleperhour.com/hire-freelancers/freelance+sound+engineer