Wow - I just stumbled in to this thread and was astonished at the levels of pricing!
With a son that is a partner in a law firm billing his time at nearly $400 an hour and a daughter in sales making over 120K a year, maybe I've been tricked into thinking my $85 hr. billing avg is practically giving my services away!
Leads me to wondering if most of you are doing outservice work for other studios or labs that are marking up your work or if you are working directly for your own clients???
I have a minimum charge of $129.50 for any type of retouching work (traditional or digital) plus the price of prints, negatives, etc with no complaints about pricing and (at the moment) a 54 order -$14,000+ work backlog. In case anyone is wondering, there is plenty of (the typical) competition in this area.
Reminds me of the old sales joke about the chicken farmer - guy is having trouble in the hen house with too little product and no amount of lectures or incentives seem to work - then he takes a trip to Australia - comes back with an Ostrich egg - takes it into the hen house and say's hey look guys I just want you to see how the others are doing this!
Any questions that I can answer here I'll be glad to provide details.
Jim Conway
With a son that is a partner in a law firm billing his time at nearly $400 an hour and a daughter in sales making over 120K a year, maybe I've been tricked into thinking my $85 hr. billing avg is practically giving my services away!
Leads me to wondering if most of you are doing outservice work for other studios or labs that are marking up your work or if you are working directly for your own clients???
I have a minimum charge of $129.50 for any type of retouching work (traditional or digital) plus the price of prints, negatives, etc with no complaints about pricing and (at the moment) a 54 order -$14,000+ work backlog. In case anyone is wondering, there is plenty of (the typical) competition in this area.
Reminds me of the old sales joke about the chicken farmer - guy is having trouble in the hen house with too little product and no amount of lectures or incentives seem to work - then he takes a trip to Australia - comes back with an Ostrich egg - takes it into the hen house and say's hey look guys I just want you to see how the others are doing this!
Any questions that I can answer here I'll be glad to provide details.
Jim Conway
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