All hail the freelancer fighters

There’s been some good news over the past month with both the Guardian and BBC upping their freelancer rates. I’ll share what these are as I expect many people not be familiar with what kind of rates freelancers receive.

Firstly, the Guardian has increased its rates for casuals and freelancers by 2.5%. This no doubt took a lot of grafting from freelancers such as Donna Ferguson and the NUJ staff reps who push for stronger rates for us freelancers, who aren’t often given as much thought as staffers. It means lineage rates will rise to 37p a word across the Guardian, and casual shifts will increase to £215 a day this year. Meanwhile the BBC has increased its article feature rate to £369.60. 

I wish these were larger amounts but I'm thankful for the small wins and the people who have campaigned for such increases.