The Creators’ Rights Alliance (CRA) has launched its new Freelance Day Rate Guide (formerly known as the Bibby Tables/Ready Reckoner).
The Freelance Day Rate Guide is a free resource intended for use by freelance creators; journalists, authors, translators, musicians, and visual artists working from their own premises, to help enable them to make informed decisions when proposing day rates and entering fee negotiations with commissioners in cases where there is no collective agreement and they are not licensing rights
The guide aims to calculate as accurately as possible the equivalent daily income rates for UK-based freelance creative workers for their time only to comparable employee staff salary levels within the range of £23,000-£60,000 per year.
Now in its eighth edition, it was previously published by freelance journalist Andrew Bibby in association with the National Union for Journalists (NUJ). For 2023/24, the CRA has taken on production with the assistance of Katharine King, Chief Financial Officer at the SoA.
The CRA, a coalition made up of 23 UK-based organisations including the SoA, exists to promote, protect and further the interests of creators through advocacy and campaigning.
The CRA website also includes further guidance in its Calculating Rates and Fees section.