I know it’s been awhile since we posted our freelance income report. Our critics are probably saying gleefully to themselves, “Ha! I knew once things started slowing down, they wouldn’t be so upfront about all things money-related. They’re just fair-weather informants.”
I promise that’s not what happened. It’s much more noble than that: a severe case of the lazies.
In my defense, November was sucked up by NaNoWriMo, and I can blame December on the holidays. But believe me, I’m feeling the backlash now. Not only have I been remiss in updating our report here on Freelance Parent, but I’m also behind in my own bookkeeping (and I’m completely changing the way I do the finances this year, which doesn’t help). This is not good, seeing as how I got a phone call from our accountant today reminding me of certain…unfinished reports he’s in need of. Oops.
Anyway, let this be a lesson to all of us in keeping things current. A freelancer who falls behind in bookkeeping is a freelancer who has to spend hours upon hours catching up.
So, without any further ado, here is a *very* brief overview of November and December for us. Hopefully, the new year will bring more organization and actual current reports!
November: $3,911.70
December: $3,896.64
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Christina Lemmey is the mother of two school-aged girls, a wife, and the owner of 
We have critics? That sucks for us.
anyone who succeeds where others fail has critics.
I was wondering when/if you guys were going to do this!
I realized that, although I generally mask my clients, they may not like me advertising their pay rates. Heck, it may even violate NDAs. So I haven’t done it yet.
So should I do it all VAGUE and not much helpful, or not do it at all. Business has chosen the 2nd option!
Solid livable numbers. At least in a 2 income household. And here in the midwest that would buy a lot! Congrats.
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Michael
Interesting stuff. And not all that bad. Look at it this way, everyone is suffering in this economy, so it’s really not a surprise that the payrate went down a little.
That being said, I would like to share some encouraging news, however, based on an recent article I just read. It’s about hot skills for outsourcing/freelance jobs and it shows demand for certain skills, like wordpress blogging trends have actually increased by as much as 4 times what they were in previous years. I find this very encouraging given the current state of the economy.
@Allena – We don’t go so far as to list our rates or our clients, but we do give an awful lot of information most of the time.
@Michael – We had to go another direction.
@Becca – We’re not at all disappointed in the numbers. Tamara took most of November off, and we hardly did any work for two weeks during Christmas, so we felt this was very respectable.