How Much Should You Charge As A Ghostwriter?

3 easy questions to ask

I want to help you price your ghostwriting services — so you never feel underpaid again.

The way 95% of ghostwriters go about pricing their services is keeping them broke.

Here’s how it usually plays out when a ghostwriter is trying to work out what to quote a potential client:

• They trawl Upwork of Fiverr to find the “going rate”
• They ask other ghostwriters in their network what they charge
• They Google “How much should I charge for a {insert asset name}”

Then, they take any price they find and reduce it by 10–20% to undercut their “competition” to make sure they land the deal with the client.

The result?

A depressing race to the bottom where most freelance writers are underpaid and overworked.

And the people who want to break free from their 9 to 5 and pursue a career as a ghostwriter look around, see this, and don’t even want to make the jump into ghostwriting. They see horror stories of writers working for $0.01 per word. Or hear about others who are trapped in shockingly low hourly rates.

The truth is, you can make a lucrative living as a ghostwriter — if you know how to…