Know your number.
Charge what you're worth.

A subscriber is worth your email-driven revenue divided by your subscriber count. Here is the real formula, where the "$1 per subscriber per month" rule comes from, and why real numbers range from cents to $150 a year.

Udemy pays instructors 97% on your own coupon sales but only 37% on marketplace sales — and courses sell for $10-15 after discounts. Here is the real per-sale math.

The naive answer is 2,080 (40 × 52). The honest answer for most freelancers is 1,000-1,300. Here is what eats the gap — and why it forces your rate up.

What podcast editing costs in 2026 — per-episode, per-audio-hour, and retainer pricing — and how editors should price for the hidden 2-3x hours behind each finished episode.

Kick pays creators ~95% of every $4.99 sub versus Twitch's 50%. Here's what that's actually worth per sub, plus tips and the KCIP hourly guarantee, at 50, 200, and 1,000 subs.

Audiobook narrators are paid Per Finished Hour (PFH) — per hour of polished audio, not per hour worked. Here are real 2026 PFH ranges, the record-to-finished ratio, and what a $250 PFH rate actually nets per real hour.