I’ve been a freelance print production designer for many years, and usually on-site in the before times. Now I work remote, and am finding it uneasy dealing with billing. Before I always billed hourly, which made sense, but it’s becoming an issue now. Some companies don’t have a full days’ work, so it seems wrong to bill full days, and it allows me to juggle projects for different companies, but my billable hours are down. I know I should bill a daily rate, but not sure that will fly. Thoughts?

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Not a designer obviously, but for what it’s worth, I almost never bill hourly. I just quote a fixed price for the project up front and then invoice for that once the work is done. Also, I only talk about timelines in terms of turnaround, not the amount of time something will take me to actually complete - so unless I’m consulting on something, a daily rate never comes into the conversation

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