"Project-based rate" was the most common answer for designers of 5+years of experience. This is the ideal scenario: you and the client agree upon a price for the project, and then you complete it within the agreed upon timeline. Whether you get the final result in 5 minutes or 5 months, that is up to you as the designer. It gives you the freedom to design and research while not worrying about things like, do you charge the client while you wait for the freaken zip file to upload that's taking six hundred years. Wage transparency is mandatory in Colorado, but you don't get it when you're a freelancer. How do you know how much to charge? This information is intended to help you gauge where you're at, and adjust accordingly if you want. For example, our friend here at 9 years at 25/hr is either wildly charitable, or maybe didn't know. This is not the person who did say that they charge a discounted rate because they use freelance for passion projects, so they're not trying to maintain a ...