/calculators/editing-costWhat you would be charged, 5% service fee included, if you hired from the middle half of the 64 matching editors. At the median: $21 ($20 to the editor + $1 fee).
Computed from the published single cut packages of active editors who list the niche and format you chose. Range is the 25th to 75th percentile, rounded to $5, multiplied by quantity, then run through the same fee calculation checkout uses. Nothing here is a quote until an editor accepts.
How the number is made.
Every figure on this page is computed from the live roster and the order records, and the result above is the same arithmetic the server ran for this link.
Active editors who list your niche and format, and whose stated first-draft turnaround fits your limit.
The 25th to 75th percentile of their package prices for the tier you picked, rounded to whole $1.
Quantity × price, then the same quote() checkout uses: 5% on top for you, nothing hidden.
What we measured, and what we would not.
A figure we cannot measure cleanly is withheld and the calculator asks you instead. A guess presented as data would make every result below it wrong.
Run the other numbers.
At what volume does an in-house editor pay off?
How many views before an edit pays for itself?
Can my videos be done by the deadline?
Where we are the wrong choice, too.
Better here on 4 of 9 · even on 1 · better with in-house editor on 4
Better here on 4 of 8 · even on 1 · better with production agency on 3
Better here on 3 of 8 · even on 2 · better with general freelance marketplace on 3
Better here on 3 of 7 · even on 0 · better with editing it yourself on 4
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