u/meth_panther

Question is the title. I have a client that I bill on a per-word basis. Recently they've been assigning me more editing projects, where they supply the draft and I just copy edit/restructure, add or remove info, etc.

How would you bill for these projects based on a per-word rate? I don't want to negotiate a separate billing rate for editing projects if I can avoid it.

Here are the options I've thought of so far:

• Compare the word count of the original draft to the edited draft, and charge based on total words added (doesn't seem accurate because I may actually reduce the length of the draft during the course of my edits, and that won't accurately reflect the amount of work I did)
• Track changes, highlight all the changes I made (including deletions) and charge based on the total the amount of words I added and removed?
• ...Something else?

Suggestions welcome!