EDITING RATES
Editorial services provided for academic, creative, and professional writing.
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Median Rate: $35-40 per hour
Median Pace: 5-7 pages per hour
Proofreading is the final stage in the editing process. This process involves reviewing a polished, complete final draft for minor typographical errors and formatting issues. Proofreading services do not include any sort of content edits or rewrites.
Median Rate: $40-45 per hour
Median Pace: 4-6 pages per hour
Copyediting involves checking for grammar, spelling, style, and punctuation issues. This process may also include minor rewrites to fix any problems with transitions, wordiness, and/or clarity, and to ensure that the style of the piece fits with the publication. For academic papers, this also entails checking the formatting of in-text citations, footnotes, and bibliographies in MLA, Chicago, or APA style.
Median Rate: $50-55 per hour
Median Pace: 4-6 pages per hour
Line editing ensures that your writing is not only technically correct, but that it is also polished, clear, and effective. This process is designed to strengthen your voice and raise the quality of your writing. Line editing addresses things like clarity, style, word choice, sentence and paragraph flow, and readability.
Hourly Rates for Other Services:
Indexing = $35-40
Researching/Fact Checking = $45-50
Sensitivity Reading = $45-50
Developmental Editing = $50-$60