The client wants a fourth revision and your agreement includes two. This calculator prices the extra round from your rate and your estimate of the work, defaults the rate to the Editorial Freelancers Association's published band for the task, and writes the sentence you can paste into the reply.
EFA median band for Copyediting: Fiction: $40 to $50 per hour. A rate you set outside the band, and the number of included revisions, are your own policy.
Round 3 is outside the two included revisions. At $45 per hour and 2 hours of work, it costs $90.00.
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This round is outside the two included revisions; further revisions are billed at $45 per hour, so this revision comes to $90.00.
Everything runs in your browser from data baked into the page. Your rates and revision counts are never sent anywhere.
Scope creep rarely announces itself; it arrives as "one more small pass". The costly part is not the arithmetic, it is saying the number out loud. Splitting the two helps: the arithmetic here is deterministic (your rate times your estimate of the round), the default rate is the midpoint of the EFA's published median band for the task you pick, and the wording is written for you so the email is a paste rather than a negotiation with yourself. What counts as an included revision, and how many you include, is your own policy; the calculator labels the cited figure and your policy separately so you always know which is which.
The answer is different for every writer, every project and every round, which is exactly why it has to be computed for your case rather than answered in general. A summary can tell you that extra revisions should be billed; only your numbers can tell you what this one costs.
Set the original price properly next time with thefreelance quote builder, check your baseline against the market in thefreelance writing rates calculator, and bill the extra round with theinvoice generator. Salaried comparisons live in thewriter salary explorer.
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