{"id":710,"date":"2007-05-24T22:41:20","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T06:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/24\/ideal-freelance-hourly-rates\/"},"modified":"2007-05-24T22:41:20","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T06:41:20","slug":"ideal-freelance-hourly-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/24\/ideal-freelance-hourly-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Ideal Freelance Hourly Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea where <a href=\"http:\/\/freelanceswitch.com\/rates\/\" target=\"_blank\">these guys<\/a> get their calculation methodologies, but the final hourly rate I came up with certainly isn&#8217;t realistic for the San Francisco Bay Area. But I can certainly see how one can live comfortably with that kind of rate elsewhere in less expensive metro areas like Atlanta or Austin or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea where these guys get their calculation methodologies, but the final hourly rate I came up with certainly isn&#8217;t realistic for the San Francisco Bay Area. But I can certainly see how one can live comfortably with that kind of rate elsewhere in less expensive metro areas like Atlanta or Austin or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/24\/ideal-freelance-hourly-rates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ideal Freelance Hourly Rates&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-day-to-day-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-bs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}