Plus, narrators are generally freelance workers. So narrator/producers can spend anywhere from 6-12 hours of work for each finished hour of audio (depending on many details of the specific requirements for each book).Īs you can see, the “hourly” rates are very deceiving. In addition to requiring an investment in equipment and additional skills, this takes another 3-5 hours of work per finished hour. So, the payment per-finished-hour requires anywhere from 3-6 hours of actual work.Īlso, while some narrators are strictly performers, more and more narrators (like myself) are working as narrator/producer, where in addition to voicing the book, we also do the editing, mastering, and file conversions to create the finished audio files. This takes an additional 1-2 hours of work per finished hour of audio. Plus any good narrator first does their prep - reading the entire book, making notes on characters and voices, researching any accents, characters, concepts, or whatever else is needed. As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, it takes AT LEAST 2 hours (and sometimes up to 4 hours if there are a lot of voices, accents, or other challenges) of studio time to record 1 hour of finished audio. When narrators work on an hourly basis, it is PER FINISHED HOUR of audio, not per actual hours worked. Other times they work on a per-finished-hour basis, with the rate varying widely depending on the narrator, the publisher, and the book. Narrators sometimes work on a strictly royalty-share basis (with no money up front, and their income dependent on the sales). There is no standard rate for audiobook narrators.
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