A simple guide to figuring out your pricing as a professional photographer.
How much should photographers charge? I feel like that statement is as triggering as my toddler asking me about death or where babies come from. But unlike the age-appropriate answers we give our kids on hard topics, it’s important to do some adulting on the topic of money.
Charge what you need to be sustainable: How much do you need to make to support yourself? No really, calculate an actual number.If you are completely new to photography and are just shooting photos for fun, there might come a time when you start to wonder if you can make money with this thing you love. There’s a turning point when you start to charge for your work and then there’s another turning point when you start to charge market value for your work.
The hope is that the industry standards result in a living wage for photographers but unlike some other careers it’s unfortunately a little more complicated. In the next section, we’ll talk about how much you need to live and structuring your pricing based on that. However, you’ll end up needing to circle back to market value to ensure the market will sustain your pricing.
The reason these ranges are so unhelpful is because it’s a huge range. A wedding photographer that shoots weddings at $2,000 that needs to make $100,000 would need to shoot 50 weddings per year. Meanwhile, a photographer that charges $5,000 would need to shoot 20 but those 20 might be more high pressure and they might have to deliver more.
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