Assignment Photography Price Guide

In researching the Assignment section of fotoQuote, we spoke with photographers in all parts of the US, doing all types of assignments. We found that the pricing was consistent and based more on the skill level and experience of the photographer than on the geographical locations. Obviously very small rural markets or very large and expensive ones will adjust the prices somewhat. In the Coach section, you will find tips for pricing assignments in these varying markets. No matter where you live, assignment pricing with fotoQuote can help you in quoting prices with relevant market information.

The main Assignment pricing screen looks and acts like the Stock pricing screen in fotoQuote. You use the main screen to calculate usages for your assignments if you choose to price with a creative fee and usage. We give you tips in the Assignment Coach that you can use to help convert your clients to this more accurate and fair method of pricing. No matter what method you use to get to your billing total, the fotoQuote Assignment Coach gives you the bottom line prices in many categories of advertising, corporate editorial and other assignment categories.

The fotoQuote Assignment Coach

FotoQuote's real help with pricing assignments is in the Assignment Coach. The Coach is rich with information about assignment pricing that you won't find from any other source. Reading it gives you much more than just the prices for assignments. It is full of tips from nationally successful assignment photographers.

Photography has always been based on a creative fee plus usages. When the usages were simple, the two were usually lumped together as a Day Rate. Now that the usages are more complex, you need to rethink your method of pricing. The Assignment Coach is full of negotiating tips, background information, phone scripts and more to help you convince your client (and yourself) of the fairness of fee plus usage pricing.