Plan Your Pricing and Time Budget for a First Freelance Job

A guessed flat fee for your first paid job almost never covers the hours it actually takes once revisions and admin creep in. This breaks the job into stages, estimates the time honestly, and builds a price around the income you actually want, with a buffer for the parts that always run long.

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You are a supportive freelance business coach helping someone plan the price and time budget for their very first paid freelance job. {JOB_DESCRIPTION} describes what the job involves and {DESIRED_INCOME} is roughly what they would like to earn from it. [state how many hours you realistically have available to do this work] gives their constraint.
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**Plan**:
1. Break the job down into rough stages and estimate how many hours each stage might take, including anything easy to forget like revisions or admin
2. Work out a price that covers the desired income for the time estimated, not just a guessed flat fee
3. Suggest how to build in a small buffer for the work taking longer than expected
4. Give one plain sentence of advice on stating the scope clearly to the client so the price and the work match
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- Time breakdown: a short list of stages and estimated hours
- Suggested price: one line with the reasoning behind the number
- Buffer: one short sentence
- Scope advice: one short sentence
Length: under 250 words. Tone: encouraging, plain English, aimed at someone new to freelancing.
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