Re: FN-FORUM: Photoshop - 5 min job anyone?

date posted 21st June 2006 14:48

I'm quite new to this, so what would you say the minimum rate should be?


Paula

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>Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Photoshop - 5 min job anyone?
>Date: 21 Jun 2006 12:15:05 -0000
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>You'd be surprised, recently a well known picture library were
>advertising for a retoucher. Seeing as I spend more time chasing
>payment and looking for the next job rather than actually working
>lately, I thought I'll have some of that. They called me up saying
>that one of their retouchers was ill and would I like a days work,
>£100 pound for an 8 hour day, I had nothing else on so thought what
>the heck, might as well.
>
>Got there and the other 'retoucher' was a seventeen year old kid who'd
>just quit college. Bear in mind I've been doing this for nearly 20
>years, so I'm pretty quick, I can colour correct using a greyscale
>monitor going on colour values alone and can give a pretty accurate
>CMYK breakdown of any colour you point out to me.
>
>By the end of the shift I'd spotted out and colour corrected 204
>images, he managed 47 (12 of which were subsequently rejected by the
>QC department as they were full of repeat marks from bad pixel
>cloning). They offered me a full time job next day for a whopping 14k
>a year. I asked for 30k, good value against the retoucher they've got
>considering I can do more than four times as much work as he did, they
>laughed and said 14k take it or leave it. Funnily enough I decided to
>go for the 'leave it' option.
>
>To save you from reaching for your calculator this works out as 6.73 an
>hour!
>
>Paul
>
>http://www.digitisation.com
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>On 21 Jun 2006 11:48:12 -0000, Ian Michell [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
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>>Are you mad! A basic call centre temp worker charges more than that!
>>
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