What It Is to Be a Freelance Content Writer: the Average Salary You Can Get
As a freelance content writer, you have many opportunities at your disposal. You have the ability to make your schedule and to work when and where you please. You have the opportunity to make every week a vacation/work from home adventure. You have the chance to make as much money as you want or as little money as you need. There is a world of possibility with freelance work and with it, there is also a world of salary options.
Understanding the average salary you can get as a freelance content writer is multi-tiered. There is no single number that you can apply to the title and earn immediately.
The amount of money you can make is really contingent upon multiple factors:
- For example: is the content you are providing truly unique? Or can it be reproduced by a computer or a man in Bangladesh sitting with a word replacement software tool? If that is the case, you can bet that you won’t be able to make much money and even if you do find jobs, they are going to pay the lower bidder in Bangladesh who actually takes less time to get work done then you do.
- Are you highly qualified as a content writer with a thorough portfolio you can present to potential clients right now or do you need to get your first job in order to gain the experience and the repertoire? If you have no previous work to show for yourself getting your first job is going to be difficult. If you have some form of a portfolio to showcase, even if it is only slightly related to the potential job at hand, that will earn you significantly more money.
- Do you have any unique skills? Do you have unique experience? This is really based on the job itself. Some jobs require a unique set of skills such as SEO tactics while others require knowledge that can only be gained from experience in that field or in that country. If you can offer something like this then you can ask for more money compared to other freelance writers.
- What is your turnaround time? If a client says they are in a hurry but you still have a full time job and can only give back the content in one week, they won’t necessarily hire you.