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Originally Posted by mu6gr8  Hmm... I find the opposite to be true. What happens when you work hourly, and your client suddenly chooses to only work a couple hours? I hope you have a three or four hour minimum so that you're not completely shafted when you planned to work the entire day, but your client gets a call from an angry lover, so the session abruptly ends.
Hourly rates (with an x-hour minimum) can make sense if you don't work this gig full-time, or if the standard for the type of job you're doing is hourly. Maybe that's the case for editing. Sometimes it's the case for engineering, and I think it's always the case for assistant engineering.
But in my world, which is producing and mixing, per project is the only way to fly, whether the project requires a half day or an entire month to complete. |
Pro studios always do either hourly or day rates.
I have a few regulars who are doing long term projects/ albums , I have 3 ongoing album projects, that are booking here every week. What do you do if you agree on a project price and then go way over the amount of hours the project should take? Do you start feeling like maybe you've been screwed? or taken advantage of? Does that also mean you work on a project till it's done, and then move on to the next which you have to find? What do you do between projects?Hourly rates totally make sense, no one is in for just an hour or two and is you have a short session you book around it, or enjoy the rest of your day, or do some things around the studio. And this way if a project runs over you're still getting paid your rate. At least that's how its been for me for the last 22 years