Anyone willing to share rates for freelance ux and product design? I am full time principle product designer in the Bay Area, and a colleague wants to hire me for a side project designing mock-ups and artifacts. Not sure where to start about figuring out a rate. Any help would be appreciated. thanks.

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Depends on if you want to give your colleague a deal or not. I start by calculating my hourly pay at my day job and then adding about 50% usually, sometimes more sometimes less.

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My free time is very valuable to me though so I don’t do much side work.

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