Writers' Fee Guidelines

General Interest/Consumer Magazines

$1.00 to $2 per word

$500 to $10,000 per article

$400 to $1,500 per column

Trade/Special Interest Magazines

$0.30 to $2 per word

$500 to $4,000 per article

$300 to $1,000 per column

Large Daily Newspapers

$0.30 to $1.00 per word

$250 to $2,500 per article

$330 to $1,250 per column

Smaller Community Newspapers

$0.10 to $0.50 per word

$75 to $1,000 per article

$75 to $500 per column

Online/Web Site Writing
Varies widely; "business" sites pay higher

$1 to $3 per word

$60 to $100 per hour

Advertising Material
Copy/Scripts/News Releases

$350 to $500 per page

$750 to $1,000 per project

for brochures$75 to $150 per hour

Blogging

$0.00000000000000000038 per photo

$0.00000000000000000015 per word

$0.0000000000000000000267 per post

I can't remember where I saved this from. It was reputable though. Perhaps the Amercian or Canadian Writer's Guild. No wait, now I remember. It was inside a fortune cookie. Or, did I just make this stuff up. Ah..the life of a wordsmith.